Blog Heap of Links for the day 12 May 2016

A raccoon's nighttime caper led to nearly 39,000 electricity customers in 12 suburbs losing power overnight after it entered a Seattle, Washington substation.…

The Navy has fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf and were captured and held by Iran for about 15 hours.…

Iraq humanitarian crisis 'one of the world's worst'…
Vietnam says would welcome U.S. accelerating lifting of arms ban…
Leaders of Colombia's ELN rebels charged with 16000 war crimes…

A migrant who had been invited to stay with a family in Sweden has been arrested for sexually assaulting the 10-year-old daughter of the people who took him in. The Eritrean culture-enricher had lied and said he was 15 in order to be allowed to stay with the family; his actual age is thought to be abut 19.

In other migration news, four asylum-seekers were rescued from the frigid waters of the Øresund off Denmark after attempting to make the crossing from Denmark to Sweden. There’s no word yet whether these daring young men had also hoped to stay with Swedish families who have pre-teen daughters.…

New Yorkers Thumb Their Noses At De Blasio’s Call For Boycott Of Chick-fil-A, Turn Out In Droves…
If College Students Are Hungry, Should Uncle Sam Feed Them?…
Marco Rubio Nukes His Credibility…

EBL: Don’t People Ever Learn? Don’t Trust A Clinton!…
Don Surber: Rock Guitarist Moves Because His Neighbors Are Too Loud…
Shot In The Dark: Those Who forget Stupid-People History Are Doomed To Repeat It…

Guess What is the Next Group to Claim Oppression?
Danny Glover rallies ethnic studies hunger strikers
ESPN the Leader in Push for Lefty Sports Media Change…

Those darn paste fumes…
Hillary & Common Core…
Socialism works until you run out of other people's money…

…On this day in 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act which was pushed through by FDR, was enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies to reduce farmed acreage and livestock being raised. … This was the first of the unconstitutional farm programs pushed through by FDR.…

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan issued a joint statement following their meeting on Capitol Hill with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, saying that “there’s a great opportunity to unify our party,” and they “had a great conversation.”…