Blog Heap of Links for the day 2 April 2011

So, having agreed to be the Libyan Liberation Movement Air Force, we're also happy to serve as the Gadhafi Last-Stand Air Force. Say what you like about Barack Obama, but it's rare to find a leader so impeccably multilateralist that he's willing to participate in both sides of a war.

Here are some websites of the Supreme Court Docket:You can look up some of these hearings and guess what?? Elana Kagan is the attorney representing Obama!!!

Scott Brown blasts Dems' checkup
Senator, kin 'disturbed' by health records search

"It seems in bad form. Obviously, when it comes to information about my wife and daughters, it crosses the line. I find it offensive and so do they," Brown told the Herald yesterday. … A DSCC spokesman insisted the request was only for public information and never sought private medical information about the Brown family. "Obviously, the commission has made a mistake. Now Brown is trying score [sic] cheap political points to distract from his record, voting in lock step with Republicans in Washington, D.C."…

• Playbook rule #17: Quick! Change the subject!
• Bonus! Includes playbook rule #7: Say the other guy is doing what you're actually doing.

"It seems in bad form. Obviously, when it comes to information about my wife and daughters, it crosses the line. I find it offensive and so do they," Brown told the Herald yesterday. ... A DSCC spokesman insisted the request was only for public information and never sought private medical information about the Brown family. "Obviously, the commission has made a mistake. Now Brown is trying score cheap political points to distract from his record, voting in lock step with Republicans in Washington, D.C." ... [Playbook rule #17: Quick! Change the subject! Bonus! Includes playbook rule #7: Say the other guy is doing what you're actually doing.]

Hundreds of thousands -- and possibly millions -- of websites have been hit with a cyberattack that some are calling "one of the biggest mass-injection attacks we've ever seen."

The Scotts have no problem with the Census, but they're not too keen on participating in the American Community Survey... "My wife has to sit with the lights off because she doesn't want to be bothered." Often, even that doesn't work. "They knock and knock and knock and ring and ring and ring," Beverly Scott said. "Knocking longer is not going to make me answer the door, and it's not going to help if we're not here."...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says federal scientists catching fish to test for possible damage from last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill accidentally drowned three dolphins.

Afghan police say two of those killed were beheaded after a group attacked the UN compound in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif; attack followed a demonstration against U.S. preacher's burning of the Koran.

John Thompson spent 14 years in jail until he was exonerated. The prosecutor had hidden evidence. A jury gave Thompson $14 million. This week the Supreme Court took it away.... "If I wasn't shaken by the seven execution dates I got, or watching my friends on death row die, I can't be shaken by what the world has to offer out here," he said in a recent interview. But he says that he is angry that the Supreme Court ruling means no one will be held accountable for his years on death row, or his near execution. "It's not about $14 million, because that was never my money anyway," he said. "People should be worried about what it means: there is no accountability. We just gave prosecutors permission to kill. That's the reality. "...

Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts to bring the reactors under control, the mother of one of the men told Fox News.

Conspiracy theorists say microwave signals produce the same symptoms displayed in recent on-air breakdowns.

President Barack Obama just shocked the nation. He called the White House Staff into the Oval Office and announced that he is going to resign as President of the United States. The President has notified the broadcast networks that he wants to address the nation Monday night at 8pm. After spending the weekend in Houston to catch the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament....

Against all the odds, the dog appears to have survived by living in a partially submerged house that had been swept out to sea.

DAYTON — Pilots on an American Airlines flight headed to Chicago declared an emergency then landed in Dayton after several of the 140 people aboard complained of illnesses Friday morning.

Thirty years after he dropped out of high school because of family illnesses and emergencies, Andrew Cain finally received his diploma - and an orange and black tassel - on Thursday. Cain, members of his family and representatives from the Tulsa Virtual Academy and Booker T. Washington High School attended a special ceremony in Superintendent Keith Ballard's office, where Cain thanked everyone for coming and for the opportunity to finish what he started in 1981. "I'm really overwhelmed," he said at the afternoon ceremony. "It makes me feel loved, makes me proud."

...the truth is there is only one thing that is capable of providing us with the level of certainty that is needed to keep from buckling under to the escalating local and international pressure. Simply stated, it is the unwavering belief that the Land of Israel was given to the Jewish people by God. This basic tenet of Judaism has the ability to instill within us the deep sense of conviction that is needed to fully believe in the justness of our cause and to stand strong against those who challenge our right to exist as a sovereign nation in the Land of Israel. Moreover it is this, and not the Holocaust or a UN vote, which is our real claim to the Land of Israel. The question is, do we as individuals and as a nation actually believe in this most basic principle of Judaism? [As the Bard said, Aye! There's the rub!]

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever has told Fox News that over the last two years, U.S. Border Patrol officials have told him they were ordered on multiple occasions to reduce and even stop apprehending illegal aliens crossing the U.S./Mexican border.

Beginning at about 10 p.m. eastern on the night of March 30, casualty notices from the Pentagon began filling my inbox. In all, at least six U.S. soldiers, all serving with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based out of Kentucky's Fort Campbell, were killed on March 29 in Afghanistan's Konar province. The families of the fallen have been in my thoughts and prayers ever since the e-mails started pouring in. When I mentioned this last night on The Unknown Soldiers Facebook page, the online community, while universally supportive of our troops and their families, also demanded answers from the national press. "Not one thing was mentioned by the media," one fan wrote, as another asked: "Why have we not heard of this?"