Blog Heap of Links for the day 5 July 2016

…According to the EU Commission president, “Following BREXIT, leaders of other planets are worried”
During a speech on the 28th of June in the European Parliament in Brussels, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker confused attendees when he started talking about what appear to be extraterrestrials.…

Noel Neill, the first actress to portray the iconic role of DC Comics character Lois Lane onscreen, passed away Sunday at age 95…

…The Juno spacecraft, which will orbit Jupiter from pole-to-pole and study the gas giant from a relatively low altitude, was launched nearly five years ago, in August 2011. It hurtled through the solar system before arriving near the largest planet Monday evening, firing up its engines, and switching its orbit from the sun to the gas giant.…

A North Georgia newspaper publisher was indicted on a felony charge and jailed overnight last week – for filing an open-records request.

Fannin Focus publisher Mark Thomason, along with his attorney Russell Stookey, were arrested on Friday and charged with attempted identity fraud and identity fraud. Thomason was also accused of making a false statement in his records request.…

Academic Absurdity of the Week: Advanced Gibberish…
DONALD TRUMP Responds to Hillary Clinton’s Ugly Anti-Semitic Smear…
Trump's Hidden Advantage -- He's Crazy…

Saudi Arabia: Bombings target Medina and Qatif mosques…
Cockpit voice recorder indicates a fire on board crashed EgyptAir flight…
Airline tells employees to look out for former Gitmo detainee…

Iraq: Baghdad suicide bomb attack dead rises to 165…
Thirty killed in four days in Philippine war on drugs…
Al Qaeda urges Muslims in India to mount lone wolf attacks…

Two more suicide bombings occurred in Saudi Arabia after last night’s blast in Jeddah. Two security guards were killed when a bomber exploded himself in Medina, but only the bomber is thought to have been killed in an explosion in Qatif.

In other news, after the successful Brexit vote, Nigel Farage has decided to step down as the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).…

The big story of the day concerns a suicide bombing in Baghdad by the Islamic State that killed at least 120 people and wounded several hundred more. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the American consulate in Jeddah. Two security guards were wounded, but the bomber was the only fatality.

In other news, a young man from Virginia on a visit to Manhattan stepped on an explosive device in Central Park and blew off his foot. At first the explosion was said to be from a firework, then later an “experimental explosive”. Now it is being called a “homemade bomb”, and the case has been turned over to the FBI.…

Trump names three apparent vice-presidential possibilities on Twitter…
Huma: Hillary Flouted Protocol, Used Burn Bags To Destroy Documents Prohibited By Federal Regs…
ISIS is a Footnote: The Real Threat is Sharia and Islamic Supremacism…

…On this day in 1935 the National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, was signed into law by communist infested FDR.…

This is it — wisdom and foolishness in one post…

This is the second to last batch of posters for today. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do…

Judge upholds voter citizenship checks…
European-style gun control didn’t stop these extremists from storing rifles near this German mosque, huh?…
Federal Environmental Lab Cooked the Books for Two Decades and No One Is Being Punished…

Hillary Clinton’s closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee, who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous lawsuits seeking those public records.…

…Murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens had originally planned to arrive in Benghazi with Pentagon assistance and attempted to coordinate with the Defense Department in order to be housed on a protected coalition naval vessel for a period of time. However, the Obama Administration’s “no boots on the ground” policy directly precluded such protection…

Ace of Spades: FBI Director Jams Comey "claims that the work-related emails that were deleted weren't 'intentionally' deleted in order to conceal them. … Bizarrely, he claimed that in the future, they may prosecute people for exactly what Hillary did — but they're not prosecuting Hillary. It's just a special 'the law does not apply to this person' ruling."…