Blog Heap of Links for the day 28 September 2018

…A herd of cattle in southeastern Oklahoma was swept from a flooded pasture into a quickly flowing creek under a bridge and all of the action was caught on video.…

…Local administrators, dazzled by “digital learning initiatives” and shiny tech toys, have sold out vulnerable children to Silicon Valley. Educators and parents who expose and oppose this alarmingly intrusive regime are mocked and marginalized. And Beltway politicians, who are holding Senate hearings this week on Big Tech’s consumer privacy breaches, remain clueless or complicit in the wholesale hijacking of school-age kids’ personally identifiable information for endless data mining and future profit.…

…On July 25, the Food and Drug Administration signed a contract to acquire "fresh" tissue from aborted babies so it could transplant that tissue into mice.

On Monday, the Trump administration canceled that contract.…

Marty Balin, Jefferson Airplane Co-Founder, Dies at 76
The singer's soulful tenor was a signature of the Airplane and Starship's sound.…

…The Bachelor… The Vietnamese version of the reality series went viral across the world when contestants Minh Thu and Truc Nhu found love with each other while competing for the affections of lead Nguyen Quoc Trung.…

Nine months in Afghanistan and then a 14-hour bus ride back to Oklahoma; it was all worth it to Staff Sergeant Matthew Morgan after getting to surprise his loved ones.

Students at St. John Catholic School in Bartlesville were thrilled about their surprise assembly. Little did they know they had a bigger surprise hiding just feet away.…

An Oklahoma Army National Guard solider surprised his daughter at school after being overseas in Afghanistan for about a year.

With Ford allegedly testifying tomorrow, and Kavanaugh definitely testifying, what better time for a Kavanaugh illustrated edition (plus a little extra)?

…On this day in 1928 Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory. This mold became what is known as penicillin.

…Brett Kavanaugh gave one of the most impassioned, heartfelt, emotional and powerful-in-its-truth defenses of his character in utterly shredding the inconsistent, incoherent and completely uncorroborated allegations by Christine Blasey Ford and her handlers in the Democrat Party and media. He also proved his mettle, his decency, his unwavering faith and love of G-d and his family, and burnished an already proven record of temperament and character that is exactly what is needed in any judge, especially one who G-d-willing will sit on the highest court in the land.

But perhaps the man of the hour, who like so many people in times of crisis somehow rises to the occasion and rides in from out of nowhere to save the day was Senator Lindsay Graham.…