Blog Heap of Links for the day 21 October 2016

…Tension between the U.S. and Russia is at the highest point since the end of the Cold War. It might be time to step back and reassess our situation. Instead, we have the chief of staff, General Mark Milley, declaring, "I want to be clear to those who wish to do us harm … the United States military – despite all of our challenges… will stop you and we will beat you harder than you have ever been beaten before. Make no mistake about that."…

Some of the internet’s most popular services, including Twitter, Spotify, SoundCloud, AirBnB, and Reddit, were taken offline Friday by a major cyber-attack across the internet.… across the east coast of the U.S. and lasted for roughly two hours…

Phillip Marshall, a former airplane pilot and author whose works included the 2003 novel “Lakefront Airport,” – “False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-911 World (08)” and “The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror,” a 2012 publication in which Marshall theorized it wasn't al-Qaida but rather U.S. and Saudi government officials who orchestrated 9/11, was found dead along with his two children in their Murphrys-area home in California – 2013. Reports indicate all 3 died of gunshot wounds. …

…This dance sequence from the 1943 film Stormy Weather has Fayard and Harold doing their unique amalgam of tap, gymnastics, and acrobatics to “Jumpin’ Jive” by Cab Calloway. No less an authority than Fred Astaire called this the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen.…

1. no1 b4 me. srsly.…

A federal judge has ruled that a preliminary injunction against the Obama directive governing transgender access to public school restrooms applies nationwide.…

A San Antonio, Texas family is thanking a young man for saving a little girl from a heartbreaking moment.

Addie Rodriguez, 9, was performing at a football game at Central Catholic High School when the other cheerleaders on her squad were joined by their fathers and lifted onto their shoulders.

But Addie's father wasn't there. He'd deployed for training in California the previous day, and her mother had missed the memo about the parent day ceremony.…

…There are a number of things that annoy me about the proliferation of tattoos.…

A major gay rights group is giving Oklahoma an "F" grade when it comes to LGBT protections.…

In defense of Donald Trump's suggestion that Muslim immigration be restricted until we better understand the nature of the Jihadist terror threat, the following is offered up by our long-suffering Summer Intern @BiffSpackle…

The Department of Defense announced Thursday the death of one soldier and one Department of Army civilian employee who were supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.

Sgt. Douglas J. Riney, 26, of Fairview, Illinois, and Michael G. Sauro, 40, of McAlester, Oklahoma, died Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan of wounds received from encountering hostile enemy forces.…

…You know it’s not a coincidence when several mainstream media outlets that every non-conservative Jew reads suddenly announce that Donald Trump’s supporters are crazed antisemites. These are, of course, the same media outlets that have been silent for years about the antisemitism at the heart of the Democrat base.…

Caped Crusader sent me these wonderful political posters…

Al Jazeera: Iraq: Deaths as explosions, gunfire rock Kirkuk

ISIL claims responsibility for deadly attacks targeting buildings and a power station in and around oil-rich city.…

I’m so grateful to Caped Crusader for sending the following political posters to liven up the blog…

The Temples of Jerusalem in Islam…
Make America Victorious Again…
WIKILEAKS: Bill Clinton Receives ‘Expensive Gifts,’ Is Personally Paid By Clinton Foundation Sponsors…

How to exit a party…
Reminder: Washington Hates America…
Hillary Is Not a "Soulless, Pragmatic Corporatist Who Will Preserve the Status Quo," as Pro-Hillary "Conservatives" Claim. She Sees Herself as a Messianic Joan of Arc to Deliver the Left's Revelation to the Earth…

Harambe Costumes Are ‘Cultural Appropriation’…
A Baby With 3 Parents Has Been Born. These Are the Dangers You Should Know About…
CLINTON CONFUSION: Bill says ‘I’ve tried to run for her on her behalf’…

About forty asylum seekers, most of them Algerians, staged a violent protest at a facility in Spain. After smashing furniture, the discontented refugees climbed to the roof of the building and stayed there for eleven hours.

In other news, a California man who had just been convicted of child sexual assault slit his own throat with a smuggled-in razor blade while sitting at the defense table in the courtroom. His self-inflicted injury is not life-threatening, however, and he is recovering in the hospital.…

…Noted at press time: the lead for the day is not an O'Keefe or Wikileak but right out in the open. Of course, it's from a foreign paper so I fully expect a total US media embargo and/or smears about the individual in question.…

**CIA Contractor Claims He Was Muzzled by the Agency to Shield Hillary from Another Potentially Devastating Benghazi-like Incident**…
Chutzpah Meter Alert: 8 Times the Left Claimed Elections Rigged/Stolen…
Security Detail's Reaction to Hillary Breaking Her Elbow: "ROFLMAO!!!"…

…I am checking in this morning to say I just woke up and have no VNN or history or brain this morning.

"Anonymous" poll of 50,000 voters, 1,000 from each state, equal numbers of Dem, GOP, & Indy, defies all the other polls. "Trump Leading 67% To Hillary’s 19%."…

…Former FBI Asst Director James Kallstrom endorses Donald J. Trum … “Our country is going down the tubes.”…

A woman who accused a Donald Trump supporter of punching her outside a Trump rally in North Carolina is backtracking after James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released video showing Democrat operatives claiming she was a trained activist. 69-year-old Shirley Teter of Asheville now says it is possible that 73-year-old Richard L. Campbell merely touched her accidentally, as his attorney had claimed all along.…

…According to sources within the Department of Defense speaking under anonymity, Clinton likely violated at least two Dept. of Defense SAP protocols during the debate by announcing on live television the United States Government’s response time for a nuclear launch.…

To the dismay of intelligence officials, the fact that this top secret information is now publicly known not only proves that Clinton is “unfit to be commander-in-chief,” but it also poses a direct threat to national security.…