Blog Heap of Links for the day 30 June 2016

Sweden’s police chief unveiled the force’s latest weapon in the fight against sexual assault: wristbands reading “Don’t touch me”.…

…A 13-year-old girl was attacked in her bed and stabbed to death by an 19-year-old Arab (who lived well with his family in a big house).… Palestinian assailant broke into a home in a West Bank settlement early Thursday and stabbed a 13-year-old Jewish girl to death as she slept in bed… attacker… fatally shot by security guards.… The hospital identified the slain girl as Hallel Yaffa Ariel. She was a a cousin of Uri Ariel, a Cabinet minister from the Jewish Home, a party affiliated with the West Bank settler movement.…

“When the Americans who liberated Dachau found the women with their babies, they cried.”…
Their stories are amazing…
Even in the midst of unthinkable evil, there survived life and hope.…

…"Even though people who eat more butter generally have worse diets and lifestyles, it seemed to be pretty neutral overall"…

Roads …one day they might be paved with pig manure. …pig manure has oils that can be used to create a petroleum-like substance, which can be mixed with sand or gravel to make a strong asphalt substitute.…

Legendary folk-rock singer Paul Simon says, after making music for more than 60 years, he’s ready to “let go” of the limelight and “see what happens.”

“Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” Simon told the New York Times in a recent interview.…

Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose million-selling “Future Shock” and other books anticipated the disruptions and transformations brought about by the rise of digital technology, has died. He was 87.

He died late Monday in his sleep at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, said Yvonne Merkel, a spokeswoman for his Reston, Virginia-based consulting firm, Toffler Associates.…

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday called for greater integration with Canada and the United States in the wake of Britain's vote to split with the European Union.…

American Thinker: Heart Of Darkness – The Evil At The Core Of Modern Liberalism…
Joe For America: Fauxcahontas Warren Makes Anti-Trump Ad, Ends Up Humiliating Herself…
The Lonely Conservative: After Senate Dems Kill Zika Funding, NIH Says There’s No Money To Fight It…

CNN: ISIS leadership involved in Istanbul attack planning, Turkish source says…
Armed police to patrol French beaches amid terrorism fears…
Islamic State and the threat of WMDs…

Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative…
The FBI Investigation of Hillary: Is the Fix In?…
What We Do Know about the Benghazi Attack Demands a Reckoning…

This is not the usual Bookworm Beat, because I don’t have a lot of links. Instead, I wanted to offer a few observations that have been floating around in my brain for a while.

The Founders would have approved of Brexit.…

Ann Coulter: “Trump’s Popularity Can’t Be Measured By Traditional Polls”…
High School Girls Angry After Boy Is Crowned Prom Queen…
Want a Gun-Free Zone? Tennessee Says That’s on You: Literally…

Man claims he invented iPhone, is suing Apple. Good luck with that. …
Split between GOP and NRA? …
RNC Convention news keeps getting stranger …

…On this day in 1934 Adolf Hitler sent his Brown Shirt goons to kill his political rivals. This later became known as the Night of the Long Knives and it should have awakened the world to what kind of man he was. But he still had supporters in the US such as Henry Ford who continued to do business with him up until the US entered WWII.

The Japanese Supreme Court has upheld the government’s policy of maintaining a blanket surveillance of the Muslim community. The ruling was handed down in response to a lawsuit by Muslims who claimed the surveillance was discriminatory and unconstitutional.

In other news, in the wake of recent shootings of police in the suburbs of Paris, French beach police are going to arm themselves this summer. In addition to self-protection, the armed police will be better able to deal with potential terror attacks on beach resorts.…

Hillary Clinton's emails packed with America's secrets were stored by company 'wide open to hackers' and run by 'morons' whistleblowers reveal…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) praised former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday — the day after the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report. “She’s an intelligent and capable person, no question about it,” McConnell told Time Warner Cable News, adding that he had worked well with her in the Senate and would be able to work with her as president.…