Blog Heap of Links for the day 21 October 2015
Theory of Education
…7th grader was given as an assignment. It asks the child to explain the Five Pillars of Islam. The mother’s response is priceless.…
Hang Those Who Betray Public Trust
Judicial Watch: Defense, State Department Documents Reveal Obama Administration Knew that al Qaeda Terrorists Had Planned Benghazi Attack 10 Days in Advance
End of the World As We Know It
At a press conference Tuesday morning outside the U.S. Capitol Building, Ahmed ”Clock Boy” Mohamed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed…
Spiritual Matters
…At Sidney Sussex College, where there are several papers of Dr. Samuel Ward, he found a 70-page notebook belonging to the scholar that had Biblical verse-by-verse comments and also notes on Greek and Hebrew. He took photographs of the pages, and only a month later did he realize that what he had been looking at was Ward's draft of the King James Version, with 1 Esdras in full and the Wisdom of Solomon partially complete. There are no full drafts of the King James Version because it was the effort of several translators, whose works came together to form the KJV.…
Animal Culture
Solar System
…taken on October 14, 2015 and received on Earth October 15, 2015.…
US Military
…Carr published the video, called "Hawg" (above), on his blog's YouTube page, and it hit more than 935,000 views since it went live on September 4. Its popularity is related to how much the A-10 is beloved by airmen who work and fly the airframe, as well as troops on the ground who need it for close air support. It's also a really good documentary about the A-10's combat role. So why would the Air Force not release it?…
US Election 2016
…the exchange between Mrs. Clinton and Senator Sanders at last night’s debate, when she lectured him that the United States isn’t Denmark and he responded with a rousing defense of the Danish model. …neither of these batty old geezers has the foggiest idea of what’s going on in Denmark, or in the other Nordic countries. … Denmark has been marching in the direction exactly opposite socialism for some time. …
The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben Carson and Donald Trump… primarily triggered by a significant number of threats to Carson, including death threats and terrorist chatter…
…There are no apparent references to any other religion in the Clinton campaign video except for Islam.…