Blog Heap of Links for the day 12 October 2016

San Antonio… two area churches were defaced by vandals. Identical graffiti on the structures reads: ‘No to wall’ and “Islam or Die” with an unknown symbol stenciled beneath.…

…Hero flight instructor's desperate cockpit fight for control as Jordanian flying student - who was being pressured into being a pilot by his family - crashed plane killing himself and injuring three others…

John Harwood of CNBC and The New York Times, who moderated one of the early Republican presidential primary debates, was not only supportive of Hillary Clinton, but boasted to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta about goading Donald Trump at the debate, according to new emails released Tuesday by Wikileaks.…

Glenn Beck: Electing Hillary Clinton ‘Is a Moral, Ethical Choice’…

…Where was their outrage when Bill Clinton used women for recreation and made the words “blow job” and “blue stained dress” part of our national dinner conversation?

Where was their outrage when Hillary Clinton called these women, whom her husband was using as play things, “sluts, whores, trailer-trash and bimbos”?

Where was their outrage when Hollywood and the Washington Beltway mocked the prudishness of those like me who dared suggest a leader’s private life is, indeed, our business and any politician who would use women privately, and then lie about it, should be held accountable publicly?…

Guthrie Oklahoma… Max Norris Rahe… born Sept. 26, 1916… “My parents, Seretta and Wilbert, were part of the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, homesteading north of Crescent,” Rahe said.

“Being the youngest of eight children, I was a baby when my oldest brother, Durrill Rahe, joined the service during World War I. He died on the battlefield in France.”…

As pilot commander of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber, he flew 35 combat missions.…

"I am lucky to have lived such a long, happy and successful life.”

The conservative nonprofit organization Prager University announced Tuesday that it has no choice but to “go public” over YouTube’s attempts to muzzle its educational videos. …says much of its all-ages content is being classified under “restricted mode” for objectionable content.…

Infogalactic, an online encyclopedia branding itself as a censorship free alternative to Wikipedia without “bias or thought police,” has launched.…

Air strikes hit eastern Aleppo, including market, kill 25…
IS conflict: Booby-trapped drone kills Kurdish fighters in Iraq…
Hurricane Matthew: Haiti risks 'real famine', says interim president…

25 new 'Dead Sea Scrolls' revealed…
Wind Turbines Kill Eagles From Far Away…
Trump Triggers The Great GOP Crackup…

In the wake of Sunday’s second debate, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is being opposed by numerous establishment Republicans, the most prominent among them being House Speaker Paul Ryan. Mr. Trump responded to the latest Republican opposition by saying that the shackles had been taken off him, and he can now campaign the way he likes.

In other news, a new British report says that the Islamic State is recruiting criminals both inside and outside of European prisons, creating a dangerous “gangster jihad”.…

Bill McKibben is off the rails: ‘Use America’s defense budget to fight climate war…
O'Reilly: At Least 3 Media Orgs Have 'Ordered Employees to Destroy Trump'…
Z-man: Watching one traitorous fink after another decry Trump’s locker room talk from a decade ago, I was reminded once again that these people were never on my side.…

The “creepy clown” craze has spread to the UK. There have been a number of sightings of clowns in Newcastle, for instance. They typically jump out of the shrubbery and chase pedestrians. Some of them reportedly carry knives.

In other news, EU finance ministers have finally agreed on another rescue package for Greece, this one worth €1.1 billion.…

Why lightning doesn't harm aircraft…
Farage on Europe: The little people have had enough - not just here, but in America too…
Trump Is Not Part Of The Right’s Tribe…

I have a hefty batch of links related to the election and the culture wars raging in America. I’ll try to write just enough to pique your interest so that you follow those links or watch the videos…

The news feed is extremely light tonight. It may be that most of our tipsters were busy watching the Trump-Clinton presidential debate, leaving them no time to find any news items. Readers who want an account of the epochal confrontation between Big Hair and Big Ankles should see The Daily Mail — it has all the lurid details, plus lots of photos.

In other news, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says he will not share the names on the government’s list of terror suspects with any of the country’s mayors — some of whom may soon be receiving batches of immigrants redistributed from the “Jungle” camp near Calais.…

You Know Bill Clinton Has A Shell Company That Was Never Disclosed, Right? …
Dozens of Afghan troops missing from military training in U.S.…
FBI agents are ready to revolt over the cozy Clinton probe…

This has been a good weekend for political commentary, meaning that those who create posters have been very busy. These are all good although some (most notably those regarding Hillary’s “feminist” supporters, are amazingly vulgar)…

“I Respect The Second Amendment, But…” Clinton’s Views On Gun Control Are Most Radical Ever…
Students Flood College Mental-Health Centers…
Black Lives Matter Calls For End To ‘Nuclear Family,’ Says Kids Belong To Community…

A Party of One…
Munster Go Home…
Thin Skinned Fraud Heckled at Clinton Rally…

John Thune and Deb Fischer were among the GOP who demanded Trump step aside and let Mike Pence take over the ticket after the release of his “grab them by the pu$$y” tape.

Something has caused them to reverse their decision in the last few days.…

Newly leaked emails reveal that Hillary Clinton had to be told when to smile while she was speaking.…

On air reporter says secret service warned people with flashes that they could trigger Hillary’s seizure disorder.…

Former Secret Service officer Gary J. Byrne… I then went on to become a Secret Service uniformed division officer for 12 years, where I had to take a polygraph test. In eight out of those twelve years, I protected the Clintons, and the Hillary Clinton I know is a complete pathological liar,” he said.…