Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 August 2016

REXBURG, Idaho – A family camping in eastern Idaho scared off a mountain lion that tried to snatch their 4-year-old daughter away from a campfire. …cougar dropped the girl and left Friday evening after family members yelled at the animal. The child had a few scratches but no other injuries.… agency officials tracked the cougar to a tree a few hundred yards from the camp …Sheriff's deputies killed the animal.…

…On this day in 1057 King Macbeth was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. I'm sure you all remember that from school…

…Oh, and I think I know what happened to the Rio pools to cause them to turn green and smell like farts. They crossed the streams…

There are two types of pool chemistries, free chlorine based and ozone/hydrogen peroxide based. I've used both in my pool. But you can't mix the chemicals from the two systems. They dumped hydrogen peroxide into a chlorine pool, knocking out all the free chlorine and the algaecide. Then, in desperation, they added copper sulfate to kill the algae, but the peroxide ate that up and made hydrogen sulfide as a by-product (the fart smell). The copper sulfate is also what turned that bleached blond swimmer's white hair blue-green. They musta dumped in a LOT of it.

So, finally, they did the right thing and drained the pool and started over from scratch.…

A series of message within the September 2015 State Department dump of Hillary Clinton e-mails show the Secretary of State of the United States received direct orders over U.S. foreign policy from none other than Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.…