Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 September 2016

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WW2 - still with us

Dozens of brains and other body parts were discovered at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, Germany, when the building was undergoing renovations.

The remains of the bodies are reported to have belonged to victims of the Holocaust who were subjected to Nazi experiments, including children, the mentally ill, and the physically disabled, the Max Planck Institute said according to a report by Israel’s Army Radio.…

7:37pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Digital Threat

…When Congress comes back into session next Tuesday, it will only have a few short weeks to accomplish one of the most important tasks before it: ensuring that control of the internet does not fall into the hands of those who would actively censor it to the detriment of free speech and American interests.…

6:37pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Wednesday on HLN, in a reair of a broadcast of an interview with Steve Eckel, a retired New Jersey police officer who saved a baby from a hot car with a sledge hammer, the network blurred out his T-shirt, which said “2016 Trump.”…

6:32pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

…I have a chapter on that lie in my new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!, It was perfectly obvious that Trump was not mimicking any disability that Serge has, but I didn’t have the smoking gun to prove that the media were lying and knew they were lying. Now we have it.…

His hand-waving was not unique to that instance.
6:23pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Bad Parents

Police in Oklahoma say that at least five people have been arrested in association with sexual crimes against children. Fox 23 News reports that among those people arrested, four mothers were taken into police custody.… Authorities say that three of the four mothers were aware of the sexual abuse… one of the women… allegedly joined in…

Ages of the children not given.
6:27pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

The New York Post reported Wednesday that New York City’s child services have opened an investigation into former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner.…

Citing Mediaite. As Zip says, good.
6:08pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
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Art of

I wanted to try cleaning an LP with wood glue. It made for quite an improvement - and I've read that multiple cleanings continue to clean up the snaps crackles and pops.…

Not something I would have thought of offhand, but it works
6:06pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Feeding Ourselves

Banana

…From bananas to eggplant, here are some of the foods that looked totally different before humans first started growing them for food.…

5:55pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Healing Ourselves

Tulsa …Lindley was at work operating a saw, and, in an instant, his hand was severed at the wrist.

"Six surgeons and 14 hours - they had it back on and I was home in six days," he said.

The scarring's beginning to fade, but the damage was severe; the wrist had to be re-built, there were skin grafts and all blood vessels and nerves had to be re-attached.

But all the work is paying off.

…Slowly re-opening the pathways from his brain to his hand, and it is working. Rhinehart said the progress is miraculous.

…What he's working hardest at is holding a drumstick. Lindley was a drummer with lots of bands over the years. He loved it, and his goal is to play again…

6:30pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

People Live

When Ruby and Rosie Formosa were born joined at the abdomen and sharing part of an intestine, their parents were told the conjoined twins had a 25 per cent chance of survival.

Now, four years after an emergency operation to separate them saved their lives, they are preparing to go to school for the first time.…

5:58pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
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Cartoons Count

Spider-Man

Former Muslim and Muhammad cartoon art contest winner Bosch Fawstin spoke at the AFA conference I spoke at last weekend.

Listen to his powerful presentation. He discusses something few know about: how mainstream, comic books, in particular Marvel and DC Comics, have become propaganda tools for Islam.…

5:59pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

America the Beautiful

US Flag

…Boys and girls at Big Rapids Middle School gathered around the flag pole on Monday – the first day of the new school year.

A trumpeter played Reveille as they raised a crisp, new American flag. And then, a huge crowd of students and teachers began reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

“Overwhelming,” is how Principal Mitch Cummings described the patriotic moment.

Video of the ceremony was uploaded to social media -- and it spread across the fruited plain faster than Paul Revere on a midnight ride.…

6:16pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Breitbart is Here

90 Miles From Tyranny: Mommie Dearest – Hillary Clinton, the Joan Crawford Of Presidents?…
The Lonely Conservative: Clinton Now As Unpopular As Trump…
Megan McArdle: Why Obamacare Can’t Be What Its Supporters Want…

News and views headline links
7:47pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

IRS Failed to Notify Nearly 1.1 Million Identity Theft Victims…
Obama's former doctor: Clinton should have neurological exam…
The new art of war: How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict…

News and views headline links
7:43pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

In response to the wave of Islamic terror attacks that hit France over the summer, the French government has doubled the amount that will be spent on security for schools in the Paris region. French schools in particular have been targeted by the Islamic State in its propaganda materials.

In other news, officials in the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean have complained that they will need more government help coping with the recent resurgence of migration from Turkey.…

News summaries with links
7:33pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran…
Kim Jong-un executes education minister by firing squad for not SITTING properly during a meeting…
'Life-threatening' Hurricane Hermine aims at Florida…

News headline links
7:28pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
Nightmouse

Hillary Has to Answer These 25 Questions Under Oath By Sept. 29…
Cafe Owner Wins Appeal After Neighbor Claimed ‘Smell of Bacon Offends Muslims’…
New Britain: 1 in 20 Adults Have Reading Level of a 5-Yr-Old…

News summaries with links
7:12pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Michelle Malkin: Colorado’s Anti-Fracking Crackup…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hate Group SPLC Labels “White Lives Matter” A Hate Group…
This Ain’t Hell: National Vietnam Veterans Foundation Closes Doors…

News and views headline links
6:35pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Because having Hillary win is more important…
He could care less about American troops and their welfare…
Hello, My Name Is and I'm A (fill in blank)…

Headlines which make you think you're coming in at the middle of a conversation lead to real news
5:31pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1939 Adolf Hitler began the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. The order was actually signed on Oct 1939, but was back-dated to September 1 when they actually began the program. The program ran officially from September 1939 to August 1941, during which a recorded 70,273 people were killed at various extermination centers located at psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria, along with those in occupied Poland.…

Vic kicks the month off by pushing the news down the stairs
7:56am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

US Election 2016

Mexico Flag

…“We had a very substantive, direct, and constructive exchange of ideas over quite a period of time. I was straightforward in presenting my views of the impacts of current trade and immigration policies on the United States,” Trump stated at the beginning of the press conference with Mexico’s president. “We want to make sure the people of the United States are very well protected. You equally expressed your feelings and your love for Mexico.”

Trump said the two countries are “united by our support of democracy” and praised the contribution from Mexican-Americans in the United States. “They are amazing people.”…

6:21pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW