Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 23 May 2016
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Wars and Rumors
…More than 148 people were killed today in northwestern Syria, in “unprecedented” attacks — seven near-concurrent attacks on civilian sites such as hospitals and bus stations — on strongholds of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.…
6:35pm CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
Your Tax Dollars At Play
President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday banning the federal government from using the terms “Negro” and “Oriental,” making the official terms African-American and Asian-American.… passed unanimously in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate earlier this year.… American Indians will now be referred to as Native Americans…
What about a non-Negro African-American? What about a non-Oriental Asian-American? And any citizen born in the USA is a "native American"!! I can't believe my Senators and Congresscritter voted for this nonsense.
10:20am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
…Basically, this CDC report can be summed up this way:
Gay men in the South are seeing a spike in HIV, and it’s all the fault of those rednecks!
Apparently, the CDC believes if you people in the South would stop acting like having indiscriminate same-sex partners was risky and dangerous, then having indiscriminate same-sex partners would stop being risky and dangerous.
This is about as “scientific” as believing that schizophrenia is caused by witches.…
9:57am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
Impeach Obama
Gross: Grinning Obama Photographed Shaking Hands With Vietnamese President In Front Of Giant Ho Chi Minh Bust…
Obama spits in our veterans eyes.…
10:15am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
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Headline of the Day
OHP troopers arrest Tulsa man wanted for first-degree murder following traffic stop
By this disordered headline, one might think, the murder followed the traffic stop.
9:23am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
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Defending Ourselves
…suspect, Kenneth Williams, attempted to break into a few homes in the area earlier the same day before approaching the Williamson home. Williamson’s daughter saw Williams running toward the house, where he tried to get in through a window…
“That’s scary, and then my baby was there… I was thinking like ... kill him.… I got a crutch and I started slamming him in the face with it and he wouldn’t get down, so I picked up a vacuum out of the hallway and started slamming him in the face with the vacuum. He still wouldn’t get down, so I proceeded to punch him with my fist and he jumped down…”
…burglar asked Williamson if she would return his book bag and begged her not to call the police. Williamson kept the bag and met him with a knife instead, and then chased the man down the street… Williamson and several neighbors held the man until police arrived.…
9:33am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
TULSA, Oklahoma… female victim reported two men kicking in her door just around 9:30 Sunday night. …went to her bedroom and grabbed a gun. …told the men she had a gun but they kept coming towards her, so she fired three rounds at them. One man was shot in the chest but both made it to a white four-door vehicle and left the scene. …vehicle was then seen dropping that suspect off at a local hospital, where he's in the ICU in serious condition.… still looking for the other intruder… woman in the home was not hurt.…
If only all such stories could have at least this good an outcome!
9:26am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
Breitbart is Here
Michelle Malkin: Hey, Gun-Grabbers – Hands Off My Kids’ Lego Weapons…
American Thinker: Abolish The Department Of Justice…
This Ain’t Hell: New York Times’ Untold Damage…
News and opinion links
6:37pm CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
Wall Street Journal: Iraq Begins Assault on Islamic State in Fallujah…
Bombs kill more than 140 in Syrian government-held cities…
60,000 have died in Syrian government jails during war…
News headline links
11:07am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
A member of the audience at an outdoor concert in Austria had an argument with his girlfriend, and then got a gun and went on a rampage. He fired randomly into the crowd and killed two people before killing himself.
In other Austrian news, the run-off election held today between presidential candidates Norbert Hofer of the FPÖ and Alexander Van der Bellen of the Greens is a dead heat. The outcome won’t be known until after the absentee ballots are counted, probably tomorrow evening.…
News headline links and summaries
10:11am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
How much of a workout is sex, really?…
We let our men have sex with other women…
NYC subways: Victims of their own success…
If only that had been "their own sucsex I would've had a three-fer.
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10:00am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
Donald Trump ahead in one new national poll and closing in on Clinton in another…
Half of world’s Muslims are inbred due to generations of incest…
‘We are like a bomb’: food riots show Venezuela crisis has gone beyond politics…
Big change in style for the Continental Breakfast. Instead of just headline links, now has extensive new summaries with links. Pretty nice layout.
9:44am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
Wanted: New leader for the Taliban…
Mt. Everest, she's a bitch…
Suicide by lion, what a dumb _ _ _ _…
Some news headlines are more clearer what they link to than others.
9:11am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW
…On this day in 1934 Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Their bodies and the car they were in were riddled by bullets. There are a lot of conflicting stories about the death of these two outlaws, but one thing is certain. The police could not have set up that ambush if someone had not ratted them out.…
The morning thread went up at 6:30, but Vic goes up at 6:00, so his report is on the tail-end of the Overnight again. Why can't they get things perfect every day?
8:57am CDT Mon 2016 May 23 :MW