Blog Heap of Links for the day 26 May 2015

Headline: Lib Rag Vox Marks Memorial Day By Lamenting Fact Military Deserters And Draft Dodgers Don't Get Their Own Holiday

…Late last night, three separate thunderstorm systems converged over Space City to form one incredibly nasty storm. For weeks Houston and other parts of the Lone Star State have been pelted with storm system after storm system… Leaving two dead, lightning storms and torrential rainfall pounded Houston for most of the night. Some parts of the city, particularly southwest Houston, saw more than ten inches of rain in as little as five hours. Courts and schools were closed Tuesday with much of the city still unnavigable.… [Video, Photos]

…Captain Farley slipped or fell into the area around a storm drain and all personnel on scene rushed to help. A firefighter grabbed hold of Captain Farley while another firefighter held that one.

As Lieutenant Zane James went to help the other firefighters pull Captain Farley out, Farley and James were pulled into the storm drain.… [James survived]

A bill taking a step towards gold and silver as commonly-used legal tender in Texas passed in the state Senate today by an overwhelming 29-2 vote.

…The allegation was that bad language was used by an employee on the property in front of the sheep, and that they could have been offended by the use of bad language...."

These are the two officers who lost their lives on May 9, 2015:
Benjamin Deen, 34.
Liquori Tate, 25.
Officer Tate posted on Facebook last year: "I graduated the Police Academy today. I am now a Police Officer. I would like to thank God, the Police Academy, the Police Department, my family, friends, and love ones."…

Jack Leroy Tueller - one sentimental night in Normandy. [Video, 2:14]

Pausing today to remember the sacrifices of our fallen warriors, it has been difficult to watch the gains of ISIS in Iraq’s Anbar Province and the subsequent fall of Ramadi where America’s first Navy SEAL, Marc Lee, was killed in a ferocious firefight.…

…Yesterday, Cody set up a Missing Man table for Memorial Day. He didn’t know he needed a permit to go inside the Marietta National Cemetery, but that didn’t stop him. Cody set up his table outside, and remained at attention for two hours.…

Of all the places to locate the National D-Day Memorial, why Bedford?

Because of the Bedford Boys.…

memorial contains the name of every Allied soldier who died in the invasion of Normandy.

Four thousand, four hundred and thirteen men.

It is the most complete list of any memorial in the world.…

The plight of Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling seems unbelievable – a member of the Armed Forces criminally prosecuted for displaying a slightly altered passage of Scripture from the Old Testament: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”

Sterling, who represented herself at trial, was convicted February 1, 2014 in a court-martial at Camp Lejune, North Carolina after she refused to obey orders from a staff sergeant to remove the Bible verses from her desk.

…“But where are we going?” I asked.

“We are going to America,” my father said.

“Why America?” I prodded.

“Because, son. We were born Americans, but in the wrong place,” he replied.

My father said that as naturally as if I had asked him what was the color of the sky. It was so obvious to him why we should head for America. There was really no other option in his mind. What was obvious to him, unfortunately, took me nearly 20 years to learn. But then, I had to “un-learn” a lot of things along the way. …

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DOJ Official: Slavery to Blame for Riots in Ferguson and Baltimore
This lunacy is mainstream thought at the Department of Justice.

British intelligence officials are concerned that there is a strong likelihood of a chemical attack by jihadists in the UK. They fear that “British” veterans returning from the jihad in the Middle East will bring with them the expertise to build chlorine bombs, which are the mujahideen’s WMD of choice.

In other news, the Islamic State has issued a death fatwa against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina, whom they describe as “Satan”. …

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[Vic has recovered from the long weekend, but the world hasn't. His news begins here today.]

On this day in 1647 Alse Young was hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becoming the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.