Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 January 2016

Another woman clad in a hijab and this time donning a Qur'an attended a recent Donald Trump rally to see for herself if the GOP candidate's supporters are the racist caricatures they've been painted as. To Kaddie Abdul's surprise, they are not.… as a guest at the rally, she had a "duty" to the people there to "be a good guest." She said that, in return, she "felt like they were good hosts."…

…In the latest snafu, 36,000 rural smart meters aren’t transmitting their data to Hydro One, because local Wi-Fi signals aren’t strong enough. If smart meters can’t transmit data, they become dumb meters.…

A study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds a fourfold increase in the risk of genital mutilation among girls less than 18 years of age in the United States – and a threefold increase in other girls and women in the U.S. – due to the rise in immigrants from countries where the ritual is practiced. …more than half a million women and girls in the U.S. could be affected…

…The local and state media in/around Burns Oregon have been putting fear into the hearts of many Harney county residents by claiming various bands of “armed militia” have been stalking residents of the community. …Amid these concerns and the promotion of community fear, the 67-year-old County Fire Chief, Chris Briels (on the job for three decades) responded to a call of “some militia guys poking around the local armory”. However, what he discovered was far more troubling.… undercover FBI agents posing as militia… the fire chief was told to shut up and back off. …would not keep quiet …turned in his resignation, held a press conference …and informed the media around the Aamon Bundy group at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge (occupiers & their supporters) what was going on…

Oil was all the talk more than a century ago, when unpaved roads wound through a forest of oil derricks and flares of natural gas lit the night sky.

The town, however, did not spring up overnight with the first discovery of oil. In fact this area of Indian Territory was settled 30 years before becoming incorporated on Jan. 15, 1897. …

…President Obama and John Kerry have just given the green light to Islamic terrorists and their state supporters — which is what Iran is — to do as they wish with our men and women if captured. Since Obama has told the global Islamic jihad we are not at war, and combat operations have ended, then this statement means they are not bound by the Geneva Convention – as if they would care anyway.

I must ask the repeated rhetorical question, on whose side are Obama and Kerry? …

I just heard a Bowie story that no one knows because it happened to someone I know who just recounted it to me personally. …

The US Coast Guard said two Marine helicopters have collided off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. ……each aircraft had six people aboard.…no immediate word on what caused the collision or if any survivors had been found. …

For more than a decade the U.S. government has known that “Arab extremists” are entering the country through Mexico with the assistance of smuggling network “cells,” according to State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch that reveal among them was a top Al Qaeda operative wanted by the FBI. Some Mexican smuggling networks actually specialize in providing logistical support for Arab individuals attempting to enter the United States, the government documents say. …

Thisted, a small town in Denmark, has become the latest victim of the European Groping Jihad. Women in Thisted are now reluctant to go out without an escort, because Syrian “refugees” from the local asylum center have taken to groping Danish women on the street.

In other news, hundreds of “refugees” turned back by Germany at its border with Austria now have to be housed and fed in Austria, at the expense of the Austrian government. …

Moderator Maria Bartiromo pressed Cruz on a New York Times report that he failed to properly disclose a large loan from Goldman Sachs during his 2012 campaign for U.S. Senate.