Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 April 2016

Boko Haram abducted at least 300 elementary schoolchildren in an unreported kidnapping in the town of Damasak in northeast Nigeria, an investigation by Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims.…

A White House official is blaming a “technical issue” for the sudden loss of sound on a White House video in which French President François Hollande said the words “Islamist terrorism.”…

One crisp morning on Vancouver Island, Karen Parsons went on her regular nature walk with her two Pomeranian pooches.

Suddenly she heard the screams of an animal being attacked by two ravens. She immediately went into rescue mode and discovered it was a young abandoned fawn.

For two weeks Karen fed the baby by hand. …

…satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known.… Canadian site… discovered last summer after infrared images from 400 miles in space showed possible man-made shapes under discolored vegetation. …southwest coast of Newfoundland, about 300 miles south of L’Anse aux Meadows, the first and so far only confirmed Viking settlement in North America, discovered in 1960. …

…de Löwenmensch, the Lion Man… a foot tall, carved out of a single mammoth tusk… found in a cave in Germany in 1939 and, owing to some little distractions in the country at the time, forgotten for thirty years. …forty thousand years old, the oldest undisputed representational sculpture found to date.…

About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The confrontation can’t be found in any history books—the written word didn’t become common in these parts for another 2000 years—but this was no skirmish between local clans. Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology. …

The media group says that it will no longer degrade animals by showing photos of them without clothes.…

The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF)… announced that Clinton had won an Academy Award “for her portrayal of an honest candidate…” claiming that former President Bill Clinton would be endorsing Bernie Sanders instead of his wife “due to Hillary’s lack of transparency with voters” and another purporting to have a video showing Clinton actually “wiping her server clean” by physically wiping her Blackberry with a small cloth. …

No joke. April Fools' Day has been banned in China.

The ancient tradition of hoaxing and playing practical jokes on the first day of April has fallen victim to China’s crackdown. Like democracy and free speech, it is a Western concept that simply isn’t welcome here.…

…April Fools’ Day, i.e., the worst day of the entire year for anyone trying to cover news on the Internet. This year, as has happened before and will happen again, an overwhelming number of hoaxes, jokes and pranks escape onto the Web, using the cover of the terrible holiday to try to win a little bit of attention for their creators.… TVs still do not come in aerosol cans.…

…Donald Trump unexpectedly dropped out of the presidential race after an injection of stem cells miraculously cured his Political Tourette's Syndrome.… National Enquirer's admission that their story about wild, unbridled sex with multiple mistresses was actually supposed to be about Tom Cruise, but the names were switched at the last minute to reduce the chances of having the paper's corporate headquarters filled with rattlesnakes by Scientologists.…

…Donald Trump recently made a bombshell revelation that could make you question everything you know about the state of American politics.…

We’ve reached the point in history when April Fools Day is irrelevant. With Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Obama administration we surely don’t need to wait for April First to be made fools of any more.…

Aquinas College students play a prank on their hilarious Macroeconomics professor!…

Happy to hear @realDonaldTrump accepted my challenge to debate one-on-one: https://t.co/mikc6fXZei
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 1, 2016

…Hillary Clinton has decided to suspend her campaign for President of the United States.

We were able to sit down with a top member of the Clinton 2016 Campaign to discuss this explosive news. The staffer agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity.…

Record 25,741,000 Foreign-Born People Employed in the U.S.

93,482,000 Americans Out of Labor Force in March

I’m sitting on a huge collection of silly cartoons, of the type that should make most of us laugh, and on an equally huge collection of wise sayings, of the type that should make most of us think. Today seemed like an appropriate day to share them. I’ll start with the laughs, and then we’ll get serious…

College 'snowflakes' keep hitting new lows
10 Shocking Secrets of Flight Attendants
Harvard Continues to Threaten All-Male Clubs…

French Minister for Families Laurence Rossignol provoked outrage by saying that women who wear the Islamic veil are like “Negroes who supported slavery.” The minister’s comments were in response to a spate of fashion shows aimed at the Islamic market that feature women in hijab.

In other news, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said that the migration crisis in Europe is a threat to the national security of the United States.…

…On this day in 1970 left wing Republican President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971. This act passed by a Democrat Congress was, and still is, blatantly unconstitutional and like all Fascist laws passed in this time frame it has grown into far more mischief both in the tobacco area and branched out into other Fascist government control even to the point now where the federal government controls your child's lunch in local schools.

…when it comes to my hair, I am profligate. I’m also profligate when it comes to sharing wonderful posters and cartoons with you…

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won a case in Pennsylvania's highest court that had challenged his eligibility to appear on the state's GOP primary ballot and serve as president. The state Supreme Court order Thursday upheld a lower-court judge's decision to dismiss the case.…

Am I missing something about Ted Cruz? The Texas senator seems to me to be the one true conservative left in the presidential race, and the most true conservative who was ever in it.…