Blog Heap of Links for the day 5 August 2016

This is part of the list of Islamic terror attacks maintained by TheReligionofPeace.com.

During this time period, there were 133 Islamic attacks in 20 countries, in which 1087 people were killed and 1751 injured.…

…secret group of fewer than 10 people — formed in April 2014 in North Dakota, Texas and Michigan — discovered that getting a license and then ordering enough materials to make a dirty bomb was strikingly simple in one of their three tries. Sellers were preparing shipments that together were enough to poison a city center when the operation was shut down.

The team’s members could have been anyone — a terrorist outfit, emissaries of a rival government, domestic extremists. In fact, they were undercover bureaucrats with the investigative arm of Congress.…

…25,984,000 foreign-born people had a job in the U.S. last month, up 133,000 compared to the previous record set in June…

The number of Americans not in the labor force declined but still topped 94 million last month

…Revolver, released August 5th, 1966 – was the band's biggest musical watershed. Never had the Beatles emerged with such a brace of high-quality songs. Never had Paul McCartney written so well. John Lennon wasn't far behind. Never had a band enmeshed itself so thoroughly with studio wizardry. Never, simply, had a musical collective done so much to change the very concept of how sound could be produced, at the level of sheer fun, and the level of full-on art..…

…he lost his footing on some moving tree trunks and slipped into a ravine.

Luckily for Juan, a dog that he had met only a few hours before named Max, was close behind.

For the 44 hours that the boy was trapped in the canyon, Max refused to leave his side – the two cuddled together at night for warmth and the canine even lead Juan to water so they could rehydrate.

By the time Juan was rescued, he was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration but was otherwise unharmed.…

A rare copy of Superman's 1938 comic-book debut sold at auction for almost $1 million.…

Goodbye

Nothing lasts forever. All good things come to an end.

And so this will be my final ONT.…

In 1960, scientists with the poultry research branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they had successfully created a chicken-turkey hybrid. They called the new bird a "churk."…
…They suffered from mental retardation… They were mostly silent… feathers grew twisted.… crooked legs or beaks…

…“Everyone was determined they weren’t going to let go of that lady for any reason.”…

…The reality is that race and sex/gender are social constructs. The atom is a social construct. Matter and energy are social constructs. Cities are social constructs. Everything is a social construct, as we look through the glass darkly. But social constructs operate on various levels of clarity and distinctiveness and exhibit different levels of pliability and utility. Dalton’s atomic model is profoundly wrong. It has long been superseded by quantum physical models, which have the utility of making correct predictions, whatever their correspondence to reality on a metaphysical level might be. But the Daltonian model is still often implicitly the one introduced to children to allow them to gain some intuition as to the nature of how matter is constituted. In contrast, the metaphysical ideas of the ancients as to the material nature of the universe are both wrong, and, lacking in utility.

All models are wrong, but there are still superior and inferior models. Their measure is in how they correspond to, and predict, reality. Not how they correspond to our ethical judgements of how the universe should be.…

Hillary fears Trump ‘having his finger on the nuclear button’…
Establishment Media Smear Campaign to Declare Trump “Mentally Unfit” to be President…
UN Backs Secret Obama Takeover of Police…

Our country has jumped the shark…
Liars gotta lie…
Power tends to corrupt…

…One year ago today the big news was "The FBI has begun an investigation of Scankles' computer". My question with that headline link was "Will Scankles finally be held accountable?" Most of us thought she would finally be taken down and she would not be the inevitable nominee as the MFM was pushing. But Moron Case was the first one to note that, like Clintons all the time, she would get by it. And she did, the FBI and the DOJ had both been corrupted.…

Just when most Olympic athletes and coaches realize that circumstances surrounding the Rio Games couldn’t get more dangerous and disgusting, on Friday Olympic officials offered a coup de grâce by losing the keys to the Maracana, the site of the opening ceremonies.

Friday, firefighters arrived at the venue’s main entrance with bolt cutters…

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she may have “short circuited” during her response on her emails in an interview with Fox News reporter Chris Wallace.… “I may have short short-circuited it and for that I will try to clarify,”…

Hillary Clinton took aim at Donald Trump and his children at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying they "killed a lot of animals" in response to animal rights protesters who were heckling her.…

ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DEATH=> Activist and Sanders Supporter Who Served Papers to DNC on Fraud Case Found Dead…

Early 20th century modernism ignored classical rules of expression. But late 20th century postmodernism blew up those rules altogether.…

Hillary Clinton has taken huge quid-pro-quo contributions from rich people as she damns the influence of big money in politics. Trump cannot seem to find any big donors. He trashes crony capitalist insiders on the grounds that he used to be one himself.

Traditional politicians such as Mitt Romney were perfectly groomed and rarely appeared without tailored suits. Modernist politicians such as Obama like to be photographed on the golf links appearing young, hip and cool, wearing shades and polo shirts.

But Trump defies both traditional and nontraditional tastes by wearing loud, long ties, combing his dyed-yellow hair over a bald spot, and tanning his skin a strange orange hue.…

If most politicians are going to deceive, voters apparently prefer raw and uncooked deception rather than the usual seasoned and spiced dishonesty.

Will Trump fade in August, implode in September, self-destruct in October -- or win in November?

No one knows. There are no longer rules to predict how a fed-up public will vote. And there has never been a postmodern candidate like Donald J. Trump.