Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 25 September 2016
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Wars and Rumors
Three Walmart workers in McDonough, Georgia refused to decorate a “thin blue line” cake for a police officer’s retirement party because they said it was racist.… A Walmart corporate spokesperson confirmed most of the story. “Our goal is to always take care of customers…. But, sometimes we misstep.We’re glad we were able to connect with the family to apologize and make this right.” …The manager offered to make and decorate a new cake. But… the cake decorators refused to comply. “So the manager told me that he would decorate it — but it looked terrible,” the police officer’s daughter said. “It doesn’t look professional.”…
Quite a "misstep"! One would hope those cake-maker heads rolled.
‘SOMEONE wanted to murder our officers’, Hungary’s police chief has revealed as officers investigating a massive explosion, which seriously injured two officers in the capital, found a home-made nail bomb.… Police are investigating possible links to terrorism after the bomb detonated in central Budapest days before a crucial vote on the country's migration policy.… Witnesses described seeing an attacker waiting in a doorway before throwing the explosive device packed with nails at two officers as they passed by…
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told Fox News’ Mario Bartiromo on Sunday morning that “there’s a good chance” Friday’s mass shooting at mall in Washington “could be” Islamic terrorism.…
Possibly. Maybe. Could be.
11:57am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
Disinformation Propaganda and Spin
First the AP claims that the Officer who killed was white,…
NY Times Claims Keith Scott Was “Unarmed Black Man”…
Which "errors" are being picked up and repeated by media nationwide, because, AP & NYT don't need to be fact-checked, right?
11:42am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
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Animal Culture
An unusual collection of aft-end shots of critters.
11:59am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
Language Culture
Today, IS: National. Punctuation; Day!!1!
Behave… --'accordingly'?!?
11:20am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
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Breitbart is Here
Changing who controls ICANN jeopardizes our presidential election…
Voter Fraud Far From “Myth,” Panel Asserts…
London Counterterrorism Officer Quits Over Double Standard For Muslims…
Lots of brief news summaries with links
9:49pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
The man suspected of killing five people last night at a mall near Seattle has been arrested. His name is Arcan Cetin, and according to his Facebook page, he is from Turkey. The names of the victims — four women and one man — have yet to be released, pending autopsy results, but the youngest is said to be a 16-year-old-girl.
In other news, a large explosion in downtown Budapest caused dozens of casualties, but no reported deaths. The cause of the blast is not yet known, but it is thought to have been a gas leak.…
News summaries with links
12:01pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
…On this day in 1789 Congress passed twelve amendments to the new United States Constitution… What was sadly lacking was a paragraph or two limiting the authority of the Supreme Court…
Vic's news is more bracing than two cups of strong coffee
10:40am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
US Election 2016
[2013:] …A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed nearly 3 weeks ago in the Iranian city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border.… Within seconds of the C-12 Huron crashing, this report continues, Iranian emergency and security personal responded freeing the victims, including Secretary Clinton who was reportedly unconscious and “bleeding profusely.”…