Blog Heap o'Links for August 2018

…On this day in 1997 Princess Diana, her latest squeeze, and driver Henri Paul were killed in a car crash in Paris. The accident was ostensibly caused by the paparazzi and a shitty driver trying to escape them.

Rumor has it that the Morning Report's boss man will be back. You'll get the good stuff again next week.…

…On this day in 1963 the Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union went into operation. Contrary to popular belief it was never a 'red' telephone. Originally it used Teletype equipment, and shifted to fax machines in 1986. Since 2008, the Moscow-Washington hotline has been a secure computer link over which messages are exchanged by a secure email.

The Seftonless Morning Report

…On Tuesday, Missouri became the first state in the country to have a law on the books that prohibits food makers from using the word “meat” to refer to anything other than animal flesh.…

… a previously unknown network of tunnels located between the skull and the brain… [may] allow for the quick transport of immune cells to brain injuries brought on by stroke or other brain disorders…

… On this day in 1958 the Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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…I am going to use the same "day in history" as last year because it has relevance.

On this day in 1968 riots occurred in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.…

…So what exactly does happen when a crude and boisterous ONT COB is asked to cover the morning report? Could it be…

…On this day in 1883 the eruption of Mt Krakatoa peaked. The explosions destroyed the island of Krakatoa. Many thousands of people were said to have died in the Pacific islands.

…Unless you've been off the grid the world famous Maverick Sen. John McCain (RINO-AZ) passed away over the weekend. My thoughts, Attempt to be nice during the comments.…

Putting whatever his record was in the military and as a POW aside (and that is an area of contention in and of itself), McCain the man was petty, vindictive, venal, stubborn and interested in only one thing - his own embellishment. He was a crook (Keating Five anyone?), involved in the Benghazi/Syria debacle, a willing servant of the Deep State and his role in attempting to sabotage and then overthrow the 2016 election and presidency of the current chief executive, if it is ever fully revealed, will prove him to be a disgrace, or worse. If he deserves to be remembered for anything, it is for 36 years of being the exact opposite of what a person of leadership and character ought to be.

Condolences for his family.

…On this day in 1920 the 19th amendment took effect, giving women the right to vote. …

…On this day in 1814 British troops torched the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings. Supposedly the attack was a retaliation for the recent American destruction of Port Dover in Upper Canada (Toronto). Their intent was to burn the entire city but a rapidly developing thunderstorm put out the fires before most of Washington was burned.

Jesse Brenneman
@Jesse_Brenneman
Aug 8

Why are Americans so polarized? What really happened in the 2016 election? I’m leaving my liberal bubble to get some answers.…

Russia is preparing to search for a nuclear-powered missile that was lost at sea months ago after a failed test… Putin bragged earlier this year that the new missile had unlimited range. The missile was tested four times… each resulting in a crash… unclear whether the other missiles are missing at sea, too.… concerns that radioactive material could leak.…

August 14, 2018 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say a rodeo bull broke free from the Oklahoma City Stockyards and charged through streets and chased people, including one person who jumped into a river to escape the animal's path.… An Oklahoma City police report identifies a suspect as "Rodeo Bull," standing 4 feet tall, with brown hair and black eyes, and weighing 2,000 pounds.…

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WTHR) - South Carolina is getting the first-ever "The Simpsons" Kwik-E-Mart.

"…Every inch of this store is themed, including bringing products to life… The products that are on the show, you can actually come and experience in the store first hand. Sort of like getting a taste of the show."…

…I want to talk to you today about arrogance, corruption, lying, the will to power, and the complete lack of any semblance of common decency that is so utterly, gob-smackingly radiant, all exemplified in one of the poorest excuses for a human being I have seen in a long time. And considering I'm well into my 29th year on this planet, that's saying something.…

…On this day in 1978 the all Democrat Congress with Jimmy Peanut passed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment to the Constitution. This would have given the District of Columbia full representation in the United States Congress, full representation in the Electoral College system, and full participation in the process by which the Constitution is amended. The States saw through this blatant attempt by the Democrats to get two new Senators and some more Representatives. Most States refused to ratify it. It would have essentially made Washington DC a State in all but name.

…Midweek and of course the top story is the verdicts in both the Manafort and Cohen cases. The Democrat-Left-Media complex is convinced that what happened yesterday is at long last the watershed Watergate moment that will bring down President Trump. They've been saying that since he came down the Trump Tower escalator.…

…On this day in 1961 Patsy Cline recorded her signature song, Willie Nelson's Crazy. What a tragic loss her death was.…

…the Mueller Witch Hunt and Flea Circus grinds on as the jury is still deliberating, which is not stopping the Democrat-Left-Media complex from doing whatever it can to influence, intimidate and threaten the un-sequestered jury. You'd think in a trial of this magnitude, they would have been held incommunicado, but of course not.…

…Good morning kids. Another Monday and we're loaded up with link-fu so let's commence. …

…On this day in 1692 in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, were executed after being convicted of witchcraft. IIANM these five people were executed by hanging. … I view it as mass hysteria caused by an absolute dictatorship of city leadership. Similar to what we have in a lot of blue cities now.

…On this day in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote.…

…First up, I don't want to let Andrew Cuomo's disgusting remarks slide both for their own sake and more broadly what they reveal not only about him but about the Democrat-Leftists in this country as they are today.…

…The top story as we head into Thursday is the President's completely justified and long overdue revocation of former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance yesterday afternoon. The reaction from the forces in the Dem-Left-Media complex are predictable.…

…Got 4 Prime ribeye cap steaks from Costco. Salt, pepper, 4-5 min each side in hot cast iron. About 10 min in a low oven, then back in the cast iron to finish them & baste with butter. Served with mushrooms sauteed in the pan drippings, garlic parmesan asparagus, and mashed potatoes.

Yum. Best steak I've ever had, if I do say so myself.…

…On this day in 1248 the foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laid. Work progressed on the cathedral for 632 years.

…Despite the allegations of abuse about Keith Ellison, he easily won in a landslide for his run at the Minnesota AG slot as fellow traveler and probable perjurer Ilhan Omer won in her bid to take his vacant House seat. Criminality and general mopery are generally seen as resume enhancers for Democrats.…

…On this day in 1040 King Duncan I was killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth who then became King of Scotland and the subject of a play by Shakespeare published in 1623. All just so American students could be subjected to it in English literature.

…First up, in the wake of the Charlottesville leftist-orchestrated Reichstag fire protests, it is now painfully apparent that the narrative the Democrat-Left-Media complex attempted to establish, starting with last year's deadly debacle, has now blown up in their faces.…

…On this day in 1889 William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut was granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones." And the pay phone was born. …

…Nothing like a bloody riot over the anniversary of a Reichstag Fire of a staged event to try and distract from the real scandals going on including Dianne Feinstein's unwittingly (or otherwise) having a spy for the Chi-Coms on her staff for 20 years, the heir apparent to take over Keith Ellison's House seat committing perjury, the Democrat ties to the New Mexico Jihad terror camp, and the continuing revelations that the case against PDT is nothing less than a coup attempt by Obama and Clinton to overthrow the 2016 election.…

…On this day in 1981 the first IBM Personal Computer was released. Its operating system was DOS 1.0. …

…Shortly after the news broke that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) still maintained some ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — a far-left fringe group widely condemned as an anti-Christian “hate group” by critics — Attorney General Jeff Sessions dropped the hammer. …

…Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Thursday that the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture will be fully moved out of the nation’s capital by 2020, according to the USDA.

A location hasn’t been picked yet.…

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin called President Donald Trump’s Space Force proposal “one giant leap in the right direction…”

A rogue planet has been discovered outside of our solar system… skirting the boundaries of our solar system — just 20 light years from Earth… roughly 200 million years old and around 12 times the size of Jupiter… independent of a sun… The surface… is roughly 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (816 Celsius), sitting “right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star…’”

…Unfortunately for Emanuel, not all Democrats agree with the notion that Chicago should be a “Trump-free zone.” State Representative LaShawn Ford – a Democrat – called on the president to extend his assistance to the city: “Not everyone believes Chicago is a Trump-free zone,” he said, “If he’s serious about helping the people, I accept his help. We can’t turn any help away.”…

…NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.

Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.…

…The Parthenon is the single most influential building in Western history, if not world history. As simple as it looks, it is a really complex piece of architecture. Just the art historical concepts alone could fill an entire class lecture. A great introductory video is NOVA's "Secrets of the Parthenon".

…Star Trek legend Nichelle Nichols has been diagnosed with dementia…

…On this day in 1965 rowdy blacks in the Watts area of Los Angeles attempted to burn their neighborhood down. They didn't succeed in burning the Korean stores in the area for some odd reason.

…On this day in 1977 in Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz AKA "Son of Sam" was arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year. He killed 6 people and wounded 9 others. Why is this asshole still breathing our air today? NY has not executed anyone since 1963 is why.

…As I have said before, it's becoming more and more difficult to categorize specific news items because they all are interrelated. And as time passes, the common thread connecting all of them and in fact becoming the story itself is the attempt by a significant minority of the citizenry attempting nothing less than the overthrow of this nation and the permanent subjugation of the people. …

“You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort. You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever.”
- Judge T.S. Ellis

…Cavallo said she watched in shock as the boy climbed over a guardrail and jumped. Without thinking, she followed right behind the boy and jumped herself, a risky move that would ultimately pay off.…

…On this day in 1974 Richard Nixon resigned from office.…

…Lots of things to cover this Thursday but in the lead I want to shine the spotlight on a story that is for sure going to get lost in the sauce, and intentionally so. …The revelations that an aide to Senator Dianne Feinstein, who has been working in her office for the past 20 years, has been spying for the People's Republic of China.…

…On this day in 1969 the Manson death cult commited the Tate murders. …

…Looks like the Democrat-Media narrative has been foiled again as a slew of Trump-backed candidates appear to have swept the bellwether races that the Left hoped would be harbingers of their more and more mythical November "blue wave."…