Blog Heap of Links for the day 30 August 2016

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Wars and Rumors

Allen West

…We’ve shared with you previously the lethality of the S-300 surface to air missile system, as well as provided an assessment of how Iran would employ them. Sadly, it appears we were correct. We’ve covered how the head of the Iranian Quds Force, another designated terrorist group, General Sulemani, and has illegally traveled to Russia. It would appear that lifting economic sanctions and the new found financial boon for Iran, courtesy of Barack Obama, has resulted in the purchase of this deadly system.…

1:30pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

…attacked at lunchtime on Tuesday in the Rempart Saint-Etienne area of Toulouse. A man, reported to be of Algerian origin, tried to grab the officer’s gun and it is understood that when he failed, he pulled out a knife, repeatedly stabbing her in the throat.…

“Psychiatric issues” … Gee, y'think? Cites Express UK.
1:27pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

A British backpacker hailed as a hero after being stabbed in an attack at an Australian hostel in which a fellow Briton was killed has died of his injuries… Tom Jackson, 30, sustained critical head injuries in the attack in a rural town in the north of Queensland state last Tuesday.…

1:24pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

MSNBC’s Joy Reid was back at it again, Saturday, shouting down a conservative guest when they talked about the facts she wants to remain hidden. This time she shouted down Alfonso Aguilar, the President of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, for daring to mention Planned Parenthood and Founder Margaret Sanger’s entrenched past in the eugenics movement.

“Planned Parenthood is not a eugenicist organization,” Reid exclaimed loudly on AM Joy, “I think that is incredibly offensive.”…

1:31pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
John Kerry

Kerry: ‘Media Would Do Us All a Service If They Didn’t Cover’ Terrorism as much…

1:09am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Know the Enemy

George Soros

A leaked document from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations exposes the billionaire’s level of involvement in attempting to build what his organization describes as a “national movement” to reform local police forces across the U.S. The reform largely consists of federal guidelines for local police forces.…

1:22pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Bad Parents

Mom defends her son’s right to wear a tutu after a stranger publicly confronts her… The stranger asked questions about why she was “doing this” to her son and told her son that she was a “bad mommy."

1:07am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
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Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Bluebird is not above bird jokes
1:33pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Turkey signals no let up in Syria campaign, despite Western concerns…
One dead, 3 wounded in suicide blast at Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan…
Hunger grips thousands of new South Sudan refugees in Uganda…

News headline links
1:16pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Surprisingly Little Evidence for the Accepted Wisdom About Teeth…
Clemson stops man from praying on campus: ‘Not a free speech area’…
Nobody in Germany Wants to Hire Merkel's Rapists and Robbers…

News and views headline links
9:34am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
Nightmouse

Gab.ai & The Future of Free Speech in Social Media…
Twitter Now Trying To Quarantine Alt-Right After Failure To Destroy It…
Witchcraft, Islam And Humanism Are Filling The Spiritual Void Left By The Dying Church.…

News summaries with links
9:25am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Damn! He's dumber than a box of rocks…
Another day, another ROP attack…
Angela Merkel doubles down on stupidity…

These generic, and other less-generic headline news links
9:10am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1963 the Moscow - Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union went into operation.

Vic is out hotline to the world's news
8:31am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Hillary Clinton’s closest advisor Huma Abedin has finally separated from her husband Anthony Weiner over the latter’s latest “sexting” escapade. It seems that Mr. Weiner sent new photos of his, ahem, crotch to various females, including a Donald Trump supporter, who went public with what happened. The photo of the ex-congressman’s bulging pants also showed the couple’s infant son, which is apparently the proximate cause of Ms. Abedin’s decision to announce the separation.

In other news, the Italian coast guard rescued more than 1,000 would-be migrants in a single day.…

News summaries with links
1:10am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary Clinton ogles Christina Aguilera

…Given that the former secretary of state used her office to enrich herself and her husband; given that she so willfully compromised national security by setting up her own private email server in order to avoid congressional and public oversight; given that she has repeatedly lied about these actions; given that she lied to the mothers and fathers of the men killed by terrorists in Benghazi; and given that she has a long history of lying (a New York Times columnist called her a "congenital liar" in the 1990s), the notion of Clinton as a model for America's girls and young women is nothing, if not depressing.…

1:35pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW