Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 October 2015

…Standardization is one thing – but is there yet another deeper concern about Common Core? No doubt some readers will find this difficult to fathom, but could it be that Common Core has as one of its goals the “Islamasization” of the United States?…

On Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have effectively nullified in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that prevent terminally-ill patients from accessing experimental treatments. … “This is a baffling veto,” Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey said. “Why in the world would you wait to see if the FDA program works? Of course it won’t work. Gov. Brown is basically putting people’s lives in the hands of the equivalent of the DMV.” …

It was 1905 when Herbert Tyler and his son Donald rode the train to the Indian territory of northeastern Oklahoma looking for a site where they could build a cement plant. At the time, they needed a source of natural gas for their plant was well as large amounts of limestone and shale or clay. All of these things were plentiful in Washington County and they found just what they needed a mile north of the small community of Dewey. …

United States military aircraft dropped fifty tons of ammunition to the Syrian “rebels” today. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia sent 500 TOW anti-tank missiles to the Free Syrian Army to help them in their fight against the Russians and the Assad regime.

In other news, twenty “asylum-seekers” filed a lawsuit against Berlin’s main refugee registration center for taking too long to register them. The plaintiffs asserted that they waited more than a week without being registered, and were therefore unable to collect essential social benefits.…

…On this day in 1307 hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a confession of heresy. This is said to be the origin of Friday 13th bad luck.…