Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 July 2016

The Voice of Reason During the Islamic Terror Aftermath

…Turkey’s Bosporus, the 31-kilometer (19-mile) waterway transecting historic Byzantium — the present-day sprawling metropolis of Istanbul — provides an instructive metaphor for roiling Turkish scandals.…

…President Obama on ISIS: “We’re going to win this fight by…never giving up on diplomacy.” … Yeah, since that diplomacy is working out so well.…

…President Erdogan has vowed revenge for the bloody military coup that killed at least 60 people after his supporters clashed with the rebel forces in the streets of Turkey.…

Law enforcement sources in Nice confirmed Friday that the July 14 terror attack was cut short by a citizen who jumped into the cab of the semi-truck and fought with the terrorist driving the vehicle.… driver… was distracted and slowed by the citizen, allowing police to position, open fire, and end the attack. … …“the man had hurled himself into the cab when the 20 tonne truck was held up by an obstruction. He wrestled with the driver, who seized a revolver and fired several shots at the man and at police officers who arrived on the scene. None was hurt. The driver was then shot dead by two officers.”…

Of course he did. Because as I keep saying and BEGGING people to comprehend, islam is not a religion, it is a political system. All of the seemingly-religious aspects are pure theater, which only the truly gullible (due often to low IQs resulting from centuries of epidemic inbreeding) follow.…

…French Special Forces defused an explosive-laden truck parked on a highway near Nice… bomb disposal operation was conducted on a highway near Nice where a truck attack occurred Thursday night. French police have detained one person…

…Four teenage boys …found themselves stuck in an underground cave system that spans 72 square miles. They entered what are known as the Box mines in Hawthorn, Wiltshire, scouting the series of underground tunnels for Pokemon. Unfortunately, they couldn't get back out, but they lucked upon an opening that allowed service to their cell phones and called for help.…

…My word but Canadians are insufferable, self righteous, arrogant little shits. Some day they will go too far and we will send the Michigan National Guard to conquer their country as a weekend training exercise.…

This is going to be the warmest summer in nearly a year.

…We are witnessing what happens when Liberals are allowed to run things on the global stage. Total freaking anarchy…

Watch: Colorado Black Bear Locks Itself in Car…
Fun-Hating Socialist Magazine Jacobin Says PokemonGo Must Be Destroyed…
Liberal Logic: Free press applies only to quill pens and hand presses!'…

The big news of the day is that the Turkish military attempted to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a coup. Mr. Erdogan communicated with his followers by iPhone and skype from an undisclosed location, telling them to take to the streets to resist the coup, which they did. A number of explosions were heard in Ankara and Istanbul, including air strikes on the parliament building. There were reports that Mr. Erdogan attempted to leave the country, but was denied permission to land in Germany. Forces loyal to the president eventually got the situation under control (at least for now), and he returned to Istanbul where he was greeted by ecstatic followers.

In other news, the statistical bureau of the German government reports that Germany took in a record two million migrants last year.…

NBC, CNN Blame France for ‘Disenfranchisement’ and ‘Isolation’ of Muslims…
Most U.S. Mosques Teach Violence…
EXCLUSIVE – Cleveland Police have Issued “Stand Down” Order at RNC…

…On this day in 1790 the District of Columbia was established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act. This was a compromise brokered by Thomas Jefferson because the advocates of the VA-MD site did not have enough votes in congress at the time to move the capitol from NYC to Washington, DC.…

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump officially announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate in a tweet on Friday, but the two appeared together for the first time in New York City on Saturday morning, where the billionaire touted the duo as the “law and order candidates.”…