Blog Heap o'Links for September 2016

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Theory of Education

A student has requested that his university (The University of Michigan) call him "His Majesty" to protest against a new policy that respects students’ pronouns of choice, including “they” and “ze”.…

5:04pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Digital Threat

…Top law enforcement officials in four states filed suit Wednesday to delay the Obama administration’s proposed transfer on October 1st of a critical Internet agency to an international authority, saying the grantee would have the power to “effectively enable or prohibit the exercise of free speech on the Internet.”…

Doing the job Congress won't do. -Citing Washington Examiner
5:18pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Digital Consequences

…A Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator backed startup called Blockstack, just barely out of stealth mode, has been designing an alternative browser for what could be fairly described as another internet, one powered by the bitcoin blockchain.…

There's always a workaround
2:09am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
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It came from the sky

Sun

Earth is expected to be hit by a swarm of particles in the coming days… can affect satellites in orbit. The result could lead to a lack of GPS navigation, mobile phone signal and satellite TV…

5:22pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Man and Woman

Man and Woman

Sep 28 - Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, announced today that OKWU will not participate in this year’s NAIA cross country championship unless it is returned to the state of North Carolina. Piper’s statement is in response to the decision made Monday by the NAIA Council of Presidents to pull the national meet out of North Carolina because of the state’s so called “bathroom bill”, which specifies that men and women should use the restrooms appropriate to their biological sex.…

4:50pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
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United States of America

US Flag

…when a sound system broke down just as a high school volleyball game was set to begin, instead of ignoring the national anthem, the whole gym full of teenagers raised their voices to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”…

5:41pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Da Tech Guy: Hyde Amendment Turns 40, Much To Hillary’s Annoyance…
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Media’s Not Even Pretending To Be “Objective” About Trump…
Power Line: FBI Director Comey Claims “I Am Not A Weasel”…

News and views headline links
11:35pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Pakistan calls emergency meeting amid 'deteriorating situation'…
Four Mexican soldiers killed as military convoy ambushed in Sinaloa…
After Islamic State, fears of a 'Shiite Crescent' in Mideast…

News headline links
9:52pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

World War Two spy's row with wife 'almost ruined D-Day'…
Why Chicago is the murder capital…
Krautman: In 2016, Facts, Logic, and History Have Ceased to Matter…

News, views, and info headline links
5:16pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
Nightmouse

Student columnist: ‘Pockets are sexist’…
Denmark to Become ‘Magnet for Child Brides’ After Amazing U-turn…
3-Time Deportee Arrested in Texas Shooting Spree — 2 Dead…

News summaries with links
4:46pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A small boy was gang-raped by four Pakistani teenagers in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The victim is also an immigrant from Pakistan.

In other news, a commuter train failed to slow down this morning when coming into the station in Hoboken, New Jersey. It rammed the barrier at the end, hit a wall and caused part of the station roof to collapse. One person was killed and more than a hundred were injured.…

News summaries with links
1:23pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Twitchy: Man Attempts To Steal Trump Sign, Gets Shocking Surprise…
American Thinker: How Opiates Devastated The Heartland…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Washington Mall Terrorist Wasn’t American Citizen, Still Voted Three Times…

News and views headline links
1:21pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
Joe Dan Gorman

With the white-hot heat of a thousands suns, the America people HATE the traditional news media. Because we’ve been betrayed… They’re supposed to be on OUR side!…

Joe Dan's latest production. Video: 22:20 on Vimeo or YouTube
1:15pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
Bookworm

I expended most of my authorial energy today attacking PBS’s Frontline show The Choice 2016, which purported to delve into Hillary’s and Donald’s character to help inform people in advance of the election but which was, in fact, a Hillary hagiography and a Donald hit piece. Still, there are a few more election-related articles I’d like to share with you.…

12:51pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

Flashpoint in the Subcontinet: Indian Army Attacks Jihadis Inside Pakistan…
Pakistan Threatens Nuclear Retaliation…
Latest on Jersey Train Crash…

Actual news headline links! It's like I don't know the AoS anymore!
11:37am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1927 Babe Ruth set the record number of home runs at 60 in a season. Some baseball purists maintain that this is still the record since the season was shorter then.

Vic has moved his report up to 5:30am.
10:05am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW

US Election 2016

…Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson… I think — I think she is going to press the button.…

One loon calling out another - what an election!
2:11am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 30 :MW
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Theory of Education

…More than 500 school districts around the country have taken a pledge to pronounce each and every student’s name correctly because a host of leftist education groups has decided that mispronouncing students’ names amounts to a “microaggression.”…

Citing Daily Caller.
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Life mocks art - did they get the idea from the Key & Peele Substitute Teacher sketch?
7:49pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Digital Threat

On Wednesday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (R) stated that the plan to “essentially give up the US oversight role…of the Internet” to ICANN is something that should worry anyone who cherishes “free expression, and free speech rights generally,” and could potentially cede oversight of the Internet to “foreign governments who might not share our values.” He further stated that such a move is “irreversible.”…

10:37am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

President Barack Obama’s drive to hand off control of Internet domains to a foreign multi-national operation will give some very unpleasant regimes equal say over the future of online speech and commerce… Here’s a look at some of the regimes that will begin shaping the future of the Internet in just a few days, if President Obama gets his way…

Ah, Internet, we hardly knew ye
10:30am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Transport Tragedy

…commuter train… crashed into a station in Hoboken, New Jersey.… "We have a 100 plus injuries. Most of them are critical."…

Cause unknown so far. Rumor of something on the tracks.
10:33am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
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What Th'...?

…the ADL has become a cartoonish image of what it once was. Witness its list of "hate" symbols, such as the numbers 1, 2, 12, 13, and 18.…

And worst of all, 42!
11:19am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Modern Family Life

Scientists say the first baby has been born from a new technique that combines DNA from three people.

The goal is to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from the mother.…

When it comes down to it, we're all carrying DNA from untold generations. Citing New Boston Post
12:35am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Business Culture

Somali Muslims lose religious discrimination lawsuit against JBS Swift Meat Packing plant in Omaha…

12:42am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Mystery

…Lyle Blackburn… cryptozoologist… says there have been numerous bigfoot sightings in Oklahoma… “I put Oklahoma way at the top of the list of places that could truly be a habitat for an animal like this,” said Blackburn.…

I'm pretty sure I saw Bigfoot at the Wal-Mart just last week!
7:59pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
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US Congress

The Senate acted decisively Wednesday to override President Barack Obama’s veto of Sept. 11 legislation, setting the stage for the contentious bill to become law despite flaws that Obama and top Pentagon officials warn could put U.S. troops and interests at risk.…

12:29am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Post-Racist World

…“Many black people who become police officers become blue, not black…” said an NAACP representative…

Defining black culturally means blacks can't be Republicans, cops, capitalists, or anti-racists like the NAACP. Citing Downtrend
12:41am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Former Navy SEAL commanders explain why they still wake up before dawn every day — and why you should, too…
Hillary to working-class voters: I worked hard for my money…
North Korea’s Nuke Program Is Way More Sophisticated Than You Think…

News, views, and info headline links
10:53am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

For the first time during the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the Senate has overridden one of Mr. Obama’s vetoes. Congress had passed a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi officials, and Mr. Obama had vetoed it. But now the bill will become law.

In other news, the leader of Catalonia says that his region will hold a referendum on independence, with or without the approval of the Spanish government.…

News summaries with links
10:40am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Warplanes knock out Aleppo hospitals as Russian-backed assault intensifies…
ISIS no longer controls any Iraqi oil…
Forbes: Trump’s fortune down $800M…

News headline links
10:28am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

Adam Piggott: Fathers Guilty Until Proven Innocent…
Power Line: Lester Holt’s Blatantly Biased Performance…
This Ain’t Hell: Nailing The Networks…

News and views headline links
10:23am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
Ace of Spades

Congress Finally Slaps Down Imperial Tyrant…
…But His Internet Surrender Is Just Days Away…
Told He'd Never Stand Again, Teen Rises for the National Anthem. Suck It Kapernick!…

Sefton's morning report of news highlight links
10:03am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, really impressed a lot of folks world-wide at the a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts and pounding his shoe on the Russian desk there while screaming. It was this, among some other things that caused the communist Party in Russia to determine he was too unstable and removed him from power.…

Vic scrapes the news off his shoe and delivers it to your door, still fresh
9:50am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
Bookwormk

Bibi Netanyahu gave an amazing speech to the UN in which, after cheerfully castigating the UN for its biased and reprehensible behavior, he equally cheerfully assured the UN that Israel is a thriving, dynamic culture making strong new alliances all over the world.

News analysis with links.
Blog-Heaper is still getting caught up, still battling technical difficulties
12:45am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary Faced

Hillary’s Podium Was a Thing of Interest For Some Sneaky Looking People… I’m going to detail facts, you can draw your own conclusions.…

They're just behaving like Democrats.
7:55pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW

…Thomas Sowell, has announced he’s voting for Donald Trump.… I’m not linking. Trust me, the story is true.…

10:25am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 29 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Three priests with the Catholic Church have been kidnapped and murdered in Mexico in less than a week. The high profile murders mark the latest chapter in Mexico’s ongoing crime wave that continues to spread.…

11:12am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

History - less with us

Israeli Flag

Shimon Peres, the 93-year-old former president and prime minister of Israel, died in his sleep early Wednesday morning surrounded by family members… Over a seven-decade career, the elder statesman of Israeli politics and one of the country’s most admired symbols has held virtually every senior political office, including two stints as prime minister and extended terms as foreign, defense and finance minister. He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in reaching an interim peace agreement with the Palestinians.…

11:47am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

12 Things You Didn't Know About Sriracha…
‘Offensive’ Christian Cross Among Subjects Of Complaints To University’s Hate Response Team…
Trooper offers to drive grieving man 100 miles after traffic stop…

News, views, and info headline links
11:49am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

Syrian army, insurgents in fierce clashes in southwest Aleppo.…
Twelve Afghan soldiers killed in their sleep by fellow troops…
Swiss parliament votes to ban Muslim women from wearing the Burka in public…

News headline links
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As noted earlier, still catching up after yesterday's technical difficulties
11:16am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

It is possible that up to 20,000 migrants could be turned out of Italy’s shelters and left to fend for themselves. Tens of thousands of asylum-seekers have accumulated in reception centers, and the government is running out of money to pay for their accommodation.

In other news, three people were beaten up at a swimming center in Helsinki after they acknowledged to their attackers that they were Finns. Police are puzzled as to the motive for the assaults.…

News summaries with links
11:05am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The State Department has warned travelers who may be considering Turkey as a destination that it is currently considered unsafe for Americans. There are indications that terrorists are targeting hotels in Turkey that are indentified as part of American chains.

In other news, a lawyer reportedly dressed in a period Nazi uniform shot and wounded nine people in a Houston strip mall this morning before being shot dead by police.…

News summaries with links
11:04am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

Twitchy: Howard Dean Hangs Tough (And Mostly Alone) On Charge That Trump Was On Coke During Debate…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Fresh Off Muslim Terror Attack, NYC Launches Ad Campaign To Fight “Anti-Muslim Rhetoric”…
This Ain’t Hell: A Few More “Private” E-Mail Facts Come To Light…

News and views headline links
11:03am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

American Thinker: The Mark Of Soros – Charlotte, NC…
Power Line: Glenn Kessler Indicates Why Moderators Shouldn’t “Fact Check”…
Megan McArdle: FDA’s Dangerous Deals With Reporters…

News and views headline links
11:01am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

'Bizarre' Donald Trump seemed 'dreadfully unprepared'…
KU bars gorillas from jungle-theme decoration due to 'masculine image'…
Rioting is great fun…

Headline news links, including several to Trump-lost-the-debate.
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Technical difficulties hindered blog-heaping yesterday. Getting caught up today.
10:59am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
Bookworm

…Some of my blog friends have reported expensive, losing fights because they published political cartoons or other images that were obviously, or not so obviously, subject to copyright claims. To prevent that, I will no longer publish proprietorial political cartoons. Instead, you’ll just find here endless and wonderful political cartoons and social issue posters that creative people have freely released into the world.…

10:53am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

Unarmed Black Man Shot Dead by Cops in San Diego…
Tubby Riefenstahl Has the Sadz…
Busy Tampa Road Tagged with "Kill White People"…

Sefton's headline news links are mostly informative - he's still learning the art of obfuscation
10:50am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1951 CBS made the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product was discontinued less than a month later. It was doomed to failure …

Vic's got the news by the throat
10:19am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
Nightmouse

Growing Number Of Race Riots Leave A Dark Mark On Obama’s Legacy…
Germany: Refugees Brag ‘Africans Control The German Girls… We Are The Kings!’…
Black professor denounces segregated housing for black students; benefits ‘white liberals’…

News summaries with links
12:54am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

US Election 2016

Headline: Howard Dean REFUSES to back down on cocaine claim about Trump

In the realm of blatant Leftist projection, we may have a winner.
11:45am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW

A close analysis of the transcript of the first presidential debate on Monday night shows that moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked 15 questions exclusively of Republican nominee Donald Trump, and only 2 questions exclusively of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.… Moreover, most of Holt’s questions prompts were overly friendly to Clinton’s point of view, while hostile to Trump.…

Well, that was completely unexpected!
11:14am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 28 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Bookworm

…The years to come will demand a strong president. The New York Times wrote an utterly ludicrous endorsement of Hillary Clinton, one that should be in the dictionary next to the phrase “damning with faint praise.” It basically concedes that she’s done nothing of note and says that the main reason to vote for her is that she’s been around a long time and holds the correct points of view.…

News analysis with links
8:10am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 27 :MW
Ace of Spades

Lester Puts the "F" in "MFM"…
Old Coot Finds an Acorn…
Everything You Always Wanted in a Nuke. And Less!…

J.J.'s headline news links are becoming obliquer. He's learning the art.
8:03am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 27 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1905 the physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", which introduced the famous equation E=mc^2 which was made popular to the public through the opening sequence of The Twilight Zone.…

Vic's morning news round-up and nuclear physics class.
7:49am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 27 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Leaked documents with sensitive FBI data exclusively obtained by Breitbart Texas reveal that 7,712 terrorist encounters occurred within the United States in one year and that many of those encounters occurred near the U.S.-Mexico border.…

8:13pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

"Don't compare Donald Trump to Hitler. It belittles Hitler."

(See screencap.) What a foul organization. The Pravda Post can't die soon enough.
8:02pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW
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Marriage Today

This was not a march against sexual orientation. This was a march against the state imposing their view upon the church, that they must recognize homosexual marriages in their religious practices.

usa today-

Tens of thousands of people marched through Mexico City on Saturday in opposition to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s push to legalize same-sex marriage.…

7:59pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Humor in a geek vein
8:15pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Sex -- always attractive

…According new research by the Duke University, sex can be a truly religious experience, making men more likely to believe in God.

It’s all down to that famous “cuddle hormone”, Oxtocin, which is stimulated in sex and heightens love and affection.…

2:30pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW
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Defending Ourselves

…First designed in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, the Minuteman nuclear weapons are starting to show their age, and replacement parts are difficult to find for the weapons designed in an analog age.

Also aging are their silos, many built in the 1950s and now rusting as water seeps through the decaying concrete.

Over the next 20 years, the U.S. Air Force will switch out the entirety of its Minuteman III fleet with an as-yet-unnamed new missile known only as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD).…

Citing Military.com/AFP
8:07pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Cartoons Count

…join Jo Nova and William Briggs in humiliating the author of this utterly misleading cartoon so as to prick his bubble of pompous, ignorant, self-regarding, passive-aggressive, pontificating greenery.…

I like XKCD, generally, but had to wonder about this one. So, glad to see a response.
4:17pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Arcan Cetin, the young Turkish man who allegedly killed five people in a mall near Seattle, is also alleged to have shouted a female name several times as he allegedly opened fire in Macy’s. His ex-girlfriend was formerly employed at that same store, but quit three months ago. His motive is still unknown, but the FBI says it is not ruling out terrorism.

In other news, the AfD party (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany), has recorded its highest ever poll numbers, definitively establishing itself as the third-largest party in the country.…

News summaries with links
8:35pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Male Strength Should Be Celebrated, Not Replaced With Girly Men…
Why Charlotte riots, Tulsa doesn’t…
We’re Laughing at the Self-Destruction of the Media Gatekeepers…

News, views, and info headline links
8:33pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

Air strikes pound rebel-held Aleppo districts…
Colombia, Marxist rebels to sign accord ending 52-year war…
Twitter may be sold for $16bn, but unclear if it's up for sale…

News headline links
8:11pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

The King is Dead: RIP Arnold Palmer…
Will Holt Bolt Or Pull a Crowley?…
WA Mall Jihadi Described as "Zombie-like" by Cops…

News headline links
12:41pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1914 in the early days of the US march to Fascism and Socialism in the United States the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was established by the Federal Trade Commission Act passed by a Democrat Congress after being pushed by the socialist President Woodrow Wilson. The chief goal of the new commission was to attack business and capitalism in the name of protecting the people.

Vic llines up the news and fires away at it.
12:34pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW

US Election 2016

…Immigration has emerged as a central issue to the Trump campaign, and right ahead of the debate, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council has just made a huge announcement that rocked the political world. …the National ICE Council had never before in its history made an endorsement for a candidate running for an elected office.…

8:04pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 26 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Three Walmart workers in McDonough, Georgia refused to decorate a “thin blue line” cake for a police officer’s retirement party because they said it was racist.… A Walmart corporate spokesperson confirmed most of the story. “Our goal is to always take care of customers…. But, sometimes we misstep.We’re glad we were able to connect with the family to apologize and make this right.” …The manager offered to make and decorate a new cake. But… the cake decorators refused to comply. “So the manager told me that he would decorate it — but it looked terrible,” the police officer’s daughter said. “It doesn’t look professional.”…

Quite a "misstep"! One would hope those cake-maker heads rolled.
9:39pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW

‘SOMEONE wanted to murder our officers’, Hungary’s police chief has revealed as officers investigating a massive explosion, which seriously injured two officers in the capital, found a home-made nail bomb.… Police are investigating possible links to terrorism after the bomb detonated in central Budapest days before a crucial vote on the country's migration policy.… Witnesses described seeing an attacker waiting in a doorway before throwing the explosive device packed with nails at two officers as they passed by…

9:34pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told Fox News’ Mario Bartiromo on Sunday morning that “there’s a good chance” Friday’s mass shooting at mall in Washington “could be” Islamic terrorism.…

Possibly. Maybe. Could be.
11:57am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

First the AP claims that the Officer who killed was white,…
NY Times Claims Keith Scott Was “Unarmed Black Man”…

Which "errors" are being picked up and repeated by media nationwide, because, AP & NYT don't need to be fact-checked, right?
11:42am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
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Animal Culture

Elephants
An unusual collection of aft-end shots of critters.
11:59am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW

Language Culture

Today, IS: National. Punctuation; Day!!1!

Behave… --'accordingly'?!?

11:20am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Political Hat

Changing who controls ICANN jeopardizes our presidential election…
Voter Fraud Far From “Myth,” Panel Asserts…
London Counterterrorism Officer Quits Over Double Standard For Muslims…

Lots of brief news summaries with links
9:49pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The man suspected of killing five people last night at a mall near Seattle has been arrested. His name is Arcan Cetin, and according to his Facebook page, he is from Turkey. The names of the victims — four women and one man — have yet to be released, pending autopsy results, but the youngest is said to be a 16-year-old-girl.

In other news, a large explosion in downtown Budapest caused dozens of casualties, but no reported deaths. The cause of the blast is not yet known, but it is thought to have been a gas leak.…

News summaries with links
12:01pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1789 Congress passed twelve amendments to the new United States Constitution… What was sadly lacking was a paragraph or two limiting the authority of the Supreme Court…

Vic's news is more bracing than two cups of strong coffee
10:40am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW

US Election 2016

[2013:] …A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed nearly 3 weeks ago in the Iranian city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border.… Within seconds of the C-12 Huron crashing, this report continues, Iranian emergency and security personal responded freeing the victims, including Secretary Clinton who was reportedly unconscious and “bleeding profusely.”…

11:39am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 25 :MW
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Digital Culture

Last week YouTuber TechRax uploaded a video in which he outlined a “secret hack” to get a headphone jack in the iPhone 7. In the video, he uses a drill to forcibly insert a hole into his smartphone which, as you’d imagine, doesn’t actually work. Unfortunately, that joke has flown over the heads of many, and TechRax has therefore been unwittingly responsible for a number of people actually drilling holes into their iPhone 7 handsets.…

12:05pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 24 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

Cat, Excited

[Commenter] noelleg44 says: Loved these – you can take a photo of a cat doing some thing stupid or just sitting there and write some wonderful stuff about it.…

2:07pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 24 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The third trial of Geert Wilders on “hate speech” charges opened today in a high-security courtroom at the Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. Mr. Wilders’ lawyer argued before the judges for a dismissal of the case, saying that it could not be sustained on the merits.

In other news, Pope Francis said that journalism based on fear-mongering that stigmatizes migrants is a form of terrorism.…

News summaries with links
2:12pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 24 :MW

When Did Sex Become Fun?…
The case for legalizing narcotics…
Rutgers prof equates pet ownership with 'torture'…

News, views, and info headline links
1:59pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 24 :MW

EBL: Feminist Jody Allard Is A Terrible Person And A Bad Mother…
Don Surber: Did Trump Just Take Pennsylvania?…
JustOneMinute: Debate Prep For Hillary, With Everything Omitted…

News and views headline links
12:25pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 24 :MW

US Election 2016

Haggard Hillary

Hillary Clinton left a classified document behind in a Russian hotel room in which she had been staying.… "the briefing book and document should never have been in the suite…"

2:11pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 24 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Saturday night’s terrorist attack in New York City had an obvious motive. The bomb was placed in a dumpster, right in front of a storefront for the “King David Gallery 23” at 131 West 23rd Street.… So it isn’t mere terror. It is terror with a specific faith in mind, and a particular political agenda – vengeance – which at the very least is a plausible motive…

3:00pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
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Post-Racist World

Graphic showing blacks killed by whites = 0.77% of deaths of blacks & whites.
5:27pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Missiles rain on Aleppo as Syrian army readies ground assault…
North Korea threatens hydrogen bomb retaliation after Seoul confirms military plan…
Kansas AG: Pentagon spent $26K looking for Gitmo alternatives…

News headline links
5:45pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
Bookworm

With the debate nearing, it’s time to remind everyone who and what Hillary is. I’ve also thrown in some relevant Black Lives Matter and gun posters. I hope you enjoy all of these. I know that I did.

5:32pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW

Toddler survives three days alone in remote Siberia wood…
Weiner: The Final Collapse of a Liberal Democrat…
On the road with the Israeli ambulance drivers who save Palestinian lives…

News, views, and info headline links
5:25pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

More than half a million migrants are still living in Germany, even though their asylum applications were rejected. Most of them have been in the country for more than six years. Meanwhile, according to a recent poll, 57% of Germans are afraid of the Islamization of their country.

In other news, a Massachusetts landlady who is also a Christian minister was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down the stairs. One of her probation conditions is that she must learn more about the Muslim faith.…

News summaries with links
5:18pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW

Charlotte Under Siege…
Leader of the Free World Brings It…
Oil Rich Venezuela Forced to Import Oil…

News headline links
2:14pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1641 the English ship Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over 1 billion pounds today) and 400 bars of silver, plus chests of pieces of eight from the "New World", was lost at sea off Land's End near England. To this day, after numerous searches, this wreck and all that gold and silver has never been found (or at least publicly). Note that in the law "finders are not keepers" as the old saying goes. The governments of the world ALWAYS want their cut, whether it belonged to them in the beginning or not.…

Vic's morning reports are a real treasure.
1:44pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW

US Election 2016

…On Monday, the Clinton Ohio campaign tweeted Mohamed G.’s picture with Trump’s quote, “No one has the right to immigrate to this country.” The campaign added the comment: “We disagree.”

The same day, the main Hillary Clinton campaign twitter account, @HillaryClinton, retweeted the “We disagree” tweet.…

Citing Washington Examiner
5:47pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz has endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump for President four months after dropping out of the race for president, returning to his work in the U.S. Senate, and beginning to campaign for re-election in 2018.…

5:42pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
Trump, smiling

American University Professor Allan Lichtman has accurately predicted every presidential election for 30 years. This year he predicts Donald Trump will win.…

5:41pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 23 :MW
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Policing Ourselves

…Prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have filed first-degree manslaughter charges against the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street.…

Citing AP
5:48pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

…Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was troubled by the controversial shooting of Terence Crutcher, 40, by Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby last Friday because he looked like he did "everything he was supposed to do" but was killed anyway.

"I must tell you I watched the shooting in particular in Tulsa and that man was hands up. That man went to the car, hands up, put his hands on the car, I mean to me it looked like he did everything he was supposed to do," said Trump in remarks at a town hall style event addressing African-American issues in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.…

Ill-informed, thoughtless pandering
3:27pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Increase your bust size, lose weight, and ingest tape worms. Whut?
6:17pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Man and Woman

Man and Woman

…Socially indoctrinating young children toward accepting transgenderism is rampant today in public schools. …By infiltrating the curriculum in our nation’s public schools, LGBT activists can groom the next generation of participants. …The problem with taking the steps to transition physically—cross-gender hormones and surgeries—is that physical changes are likely permanent, but the feelings driving the desire may change, especially for young people.…

3:24pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
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Free Expression

…Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s chief policy adviser, said in a Wednesday statement:

Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving Internet freedom for the American people and citizens all over the world. The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and the international community.…

5:31pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Post-Racist World

Why is the brother of guy who was killed by a BLACK cop giving interviews yelling that all whites are, "fucking devils!"
__________________

Because the black suspect shot by the black cop who works under the supervision of a black police chief in a congressional district represented by a black congresswoman in a country with a black Attorney General and a black president was clearly the victim of institutional raaaaaaacism in a country where black folks just can't get any power!

5:24pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Breitbart is Here

American Power: Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Crippling The Left…
Don Surber: Hillary Spent $33 Million On Ads In August, and Trump’s Chances Rose From 3% To 48%…
Power Line: Triumph Of The Witless…

News and views headline links
9:27pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
Bookworm

I hope blogging helps me vent my spleen. Otherwise, if you read tomorrow that a woman suffered a deadly attack of spontaneous combustion during the night . . . well, that just might be me.…

News analysis with links
6:07pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
Bookworm

…Rather than viewing Trump as Satan in the Church of Leftism, Joshua Mitchell, a Georgetown professor looked at Trump’s actual platform and came up with some surprising conclusions.…

News analysis with links
6:04pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Twitchy: Need More Proof That Team Hillary’s Clearly Panicking? This Ought To Do It…
Joe For America: Gay CNN Host Tweets Support For Sharia Law, Immediately Regrets It…
Megan McArdle: Public Pensions Are Being Overly Optimistic…

News and views headline links
5:54pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Your dog can make you feel better, and here’s why…
Colleges turn to coloring books to de-stress students…
Soros Announces He’s Spending $500 Million To Help Settle Muslim “Refugees”…

News, views, and info headline links
5:52pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

18 Healthy Beers…
'Deplorables' and the Myth of the Single-Issue Vote…
Reddit Users Break HUGE Clinton Email Story – Proving Hillary ORDERED Emails to Be Stripped…

News, views, and info headline links
5:49pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A Chinese tourist in Germany who lost his wallet ended up spending two weeks in a refugee camp. The poor man tried to report the loss to police, but spoke only Mandarin, so he ended up signing an asylum application form. After two weeks in a refugee camp, someone had the bright idea of asking an employee at a local Chinese restaurant to interpret, and the mistake was resolved and rectified.

In other news, according to the latest polls, the wealthiest Americans are abandoning the Republican Party to vote for Hillary Clinton. Voters from households making over $100,000 favor Mrs. Clinton over Donald Trump by 46% to 42%.…

News summaries with links
5:45pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

UN resumes aid as bombing of besieged city of Aleppo intensifies…
US tests for mustard agent after rocket attack near Iraq base…
Puerto Rico: Huge blackout after power plant fire. Most of Puerto Rico's 3.5 million people without power…

News headline links
5:44pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
Nightmouse

Charlotte agitators throw rocks off highway overpass, strike motorists…
Keith Scott’s Family Apparently Made Up The Story About How He Died…
Rioters Attack Truck Drivers, Loot Walmart…

News summaries with links
5:28pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

Charlotte Under State of Emergency…
Once Again, Gregg Abbott Leads the Way…
Will Weiner Be Arrested For Sexting a Minor?…

JJ's little roundup of headline news links
8:03am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1888 the first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published. Now teenage boys all over America could be titillated by looking at pictures of bare breasted native women from around the world.

Looking for Vic's Morning Report can be tricky sometimes. Follow this link.
7:54am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW

US Election 2016

…NC, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY) said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is wrong in calling to increase the police tactic of “stop and frisk…”

5:32pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 22 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

At Least 12 Police Officers Injured In Riots In Charlotte, Media Van Trashed As Journalists Flee After Black Cop Shoot Armed Black Man…UPDATE: 3 Members Of Media Attacked, Rioters Block I-85, Pelt Civilian Cars With Rocks, Hackers Bring Down City Website…

1:50pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW
2

Feeding Ourselves

Hot Dog

A man in Australia has successfully patented, and started selling, the Hamdog - a combination of a hotdog and a burger in one bun.…

But we must ask: Why?
2:01pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW

Animal Companions

Cat, Excited

Thousands of years before cats came to dominate Internet culture, they swept through ancient Eurasia and Africa carried by early farmers, ancient mariners and even Vikings, finds the first large-scale look at ancient-cat DNA.…

1:59pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW

Policing Ourselves

Terance Crutcher Just Finished 9 Year Sentence For Drug Trafficking, Prior Convictions For Resisting Arrest and Had Active Warrants… Now, while a prior record doesn’t show whether the shooting in this case was right or wrong, what his background does show is that he had a habit of resisting the police when stopped. …

1:48pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Syria conflict: Air strike kills five medical workers…
South Korea confirms it has military plan to remove Kim Jong Un…
Brexit has had 'no major effect' on UK economy so far…

News headline links
2:15pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW
Bookworm

…looking at virtue signaling theologically, it appears that, not only is the behavior lacking in actual virtue, it embodies two of the seven deadly sins: pride and sloth.…

Analysis with news links
2:08pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

According to a recent report, 80% of Sweden’s police officers are considering new careers, due to the dangers they face on the job. Meanwhile, four arrests have been made in Malmö in connection with the burning of cars. Thirty-two vehicles were set alight in the city over the weekend.

In other news, the latest opinion poll reveals that almost 50% of Australians want to shut down all Muslim immigration into the country.…

News summaries with links
1:51pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW

Clinton Foundation AIDS Program Delivered Third-Rate Drugs to Third World Victims…
The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe…
Yes ICANN Rig the Election!…

JJ's headline news links, not as cryptic as MisHum's, but not as extensive
1:47pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1780 in the most infamous act of treason in American history, General Benedict Arnold attempted to turn the fort at West Point over to the British Army for a bribe consisting of a commission as a Brigadier General in the British Army and a cash reward of £20,000 (about $1.3M in 2009 dollars). However, Arnold's plot failed when British Major John André was captured as a spy by the Americans. John Andre was hanged; Benedict Arnold escaped and died in London in 1801.

Vic's news round-up - and history lesson of the day.
10:59am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 21 :MW
1

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

…CNN added the word "racial" to headlines about Trump's comments Monday on terrorism and profiling, to give the impression that the GOP nominee is advocating "racial profiling."…

12:07pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
2

Policing Ourselves

No, Terance Crutcher Wasn’t Shot With His Hands Up And PCP Was Found In His Car…

10:01pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
Hillary Faced

Hillary Clinton spoke out Tuesday against the shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, calling on America to "tackle systemic racism."

"This horrible shooting--again. How many times do we have to see this in our country?" she told radio host Steve Harvey on his morning show.…

Says the race-baiting old hag who calls cops "pigs" and hates them.
9:56pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW

TULSA, Okla. – An attorney for a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man said the man ignored officers' commands, kept touching his pocket and was reaching through a window of his SUV when he was killed.…

9:53pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

UN suspends all convoys in Syria after attack on aid trucks…
Indian soldiers kill suspected militants in clashes at Kashmir frontier…
Pilot killed as U-2 spy plane crashes in California…

Headline news links
9:52pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW

Don Surber: Experts Look At The Wrong Electoral Map…
JustOneMinute: President “All About Me” Makes It All About Him…
Mark Steyn: The Left Would Rather Ban The Debate Than Win It…

News and views headline links
9:48pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW

A reptilian anachronism: American alligator older than we thought…
Let the kids get dirty!…
Venezuela: Over 15% of People Eat Garbage to Survive…

News, views, and info headline links
12:17pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The suspect in Saturday’s bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey has been captured after a shootout with police. A third bomb exploded in another part of New Jersey when police attempted to defuse it. All three are thought to be the work of Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan immigrant who is now a US citizen. He reportedly hates America, and also does not care for homosexuals. However, all Americans breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that Mr. Rahami’s actions had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, two Italians and a Canadian were kidnapped is southern Libya, in an area controlled by the unity government based in Tripoli.…

News summaries with links
12:12pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
Nightmouse

Dear Liberals: Meet The 1718 Puckle Gun…
Masked, club-wielding assailant attacks OU pro-life display…
Hillary Clinton Calls for “Intelligence Surge,” Blames Trump for Terrorist Recruitment…

News summaries with links
10:28am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW

Michelle Malkin Tears Into Terror-Whitewashing Jihad Coddlers…
American Thinker: Democrats Losing Control Of Black Americans…
Power Line: What’s Wrong With Hillary?…

News and views headline links
10:19am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
Political Hat

DC Appeals Court approves voting by illegal immigrants…
Obama Administration Wants To Kiss Your Local Schools Goodbye…
Heretic Scientists Forced to Use Pseudonyms To Get Work Published…

Brief news summaries with links, a week's worth
10:14am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
Bookworm

The miserable sexism of Hillary’s supporters…
No campus safe spaces for Jews…
Progressives don’t change words, they destroy them…

Analysis with news links
10:07am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW

Cornered Animals Lash Out…
Leppo Brings Teh Stoopid…
The Great American Seller-Outer…

New news blogger JJ Sefton is starting to get the hang of making the links as obscure as possible.
9:57am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1982 the National Football League players began a 57-day strike. That was pretty much the end of pro football for me.…

Vic grabs the news and drags it across the goal line.
9:48am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 20 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Israeli security forces have been hit by seven knife attacks since Friday as Palestinians have increased the level of violence in disputed areas ahead of the Jewish New Year.

In one attack in east Jerusalem, a 38-year-old female border officer was left fighting for her life after she was slashed in the neck.

The woman's male colleague suffered minor injuries and was able to shoot the suspect, who is in a critical condition.

Since Friday, Israeli security forces have shot dead five Palestians and one Jordanian who were engaged in knife attacks.…

4:13pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

BREAKING: Trains Stopped Near NJ Transit Train Station In Elizabeth, N.J. Over Suspicious Device On Tracks…UPDATE: LE Source Saying 3 Pipe Bombs + 2 Smaller Devices…UPDATE: Devices Similar To Seaside…

1:01am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

Five people have been taken into custody in connection with the Chelsea bombing after the FBI stopped a car on the Belt Parkway near New York’s Verrazano Bridge on Sunday night. The FBI is believed to have called the NYPD for backup after making the highly irregular decision to halt a car on the busy highway.…

1:00am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

Scary Science

Biohazard

…In 2011, Cynthia was unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico and at initial stages of its life it was absorbing oil slicks with a breathtaking speed. In January, 2011 the Register reported that that scientists were particularly impressed by the speed with which the bacteria was eating up its “meal”.

But then this bacteria mutated and soon it was feeding on organic lifeforms. Strange reports started coming from the US, like five thousand birds falling victims of an “unknown disease” in Arkansas, or more that a hundred thousand of dead fish found off the coast of North Louisiana. It was also reported that a total of 128 British Petroleum employees that participated in the liquidation of the oil slick were struck by some mysterious illness. According to various sources they were forbidden to seek relief in public hospitals, to prevent them from talking to anyone about what has happened to them……

Real, not a Michael Crighton fiction.~
6:32pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

Untied States

TRENTON, N.J. (Sept. 19, 2016) – Last Wednesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a measure expanding the state’s medical marijuana law, further nullifying federal prohibition in practice.…

7:12pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

End of the World As We Know It

…Last night’s Emmy Awards show became a “Trump-Bashing Fest.”

For some reason these idiots whose only skill in life is being told where to stand and when to speak think Americans were glued to their TVs eagerly waiting to hear their opinion on the presidential election.

As if we dumb rubes in flyover country can’t make up our own minds on whom to vote for and must be told by our intellectual betters out in Hollywood.…

"intellectual betters out in Hollywood" is one of the funniest phrases I've seen in a while.
2:04pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

Mass Media is Dead

To the 29 people of New York City that were injured in the Islamic terror blast: You were very lucky it was a bomb and not guns, says MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.…

7:07pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW
3

Securing Our Borders

Utah-based Hispanic activist Tony Yapias has drawn a fairly high level of national attention during the past six years. …name came up in coverage of a clash between "protesters" and supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Salt Lake City in March. …A week ago, Mr. Yapias picked up another tag: accused rapist. I haven't been able to locate any nationally distributed establishment media coverage of Yapias's arrest.…

4:16pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Bombs rain down as Syria declares truce over…
India mulls response after deadly Kashmir attack it blames on Pakistan…
Trump, Clinton show deep differences after attacks…

News headline links
7:08pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A knife-wielding man ran amok in a Minnesota mall last night, stabbing and wounding eight people before he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer. The perpetrator was a Somali-American who was alleged to have invoked Allah during his rampage, and asked at least one victim whether he was a Muslim before stabbing him. The incident had nothing to do with Islam. Meanwhile, investigators in New York and New Jersey are trying to discover a motive for yesterday’s bomb explosions, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

In other news, Angela Merkel’s party (the CDU) suffered its worst electoral defeat ever today in local elections in Berlin, receiving less than 20% of the vote. The SPD (socialists) gained the largest percentage, while AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) received 14%.…

News summaries with links
2:23pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

College-Aged Students Are Ill-Informed About Global Issues…
Your Good Intentions Mean Virtually Nothing…
The "Virtuous" New Nazis…

News, views, and info headline links
2:01pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW

1 of 5 IED's Found at NJ Train Station Explodes…
FBI Detains 5 in Chelsea "Incident"…
New York, New Jersey Terror Attacks Linked?…

Straightforward news headline links? What? Oh, it's Sefton this morning.
10:01am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW
Geezer

I just woke up so no VNN this morning.

9:59am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 19 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

Law Enforcement Source Saying NYC And NJ Bombings Done By Same Person…UPDATE: Devices In NJ And NY Used Flip Phones…

8:32pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW

…A possible secondary device has been located @ 27th Street, 6th – 7th Avenues. #NYPD nvestigations are ongoing. Avoid the area @NYPD13Pct

UPDATE: Fox News reporting that sources have said the second device is a pressure cooker. And that it, too, was found in a dumpster.

Mayor de Blasio speaking now. There is “no threat against NYC from any terror organization.” And yet he’s calls it “an intentional act.”…

4:31pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW

Jihad Knife Rampage at St. Cloud Mall, 8 Stabbed… St. Cloud mall stabbing attack suspect referenced Allah during attack, asked at least one victim if they were Muslim before assault. …one jihadi is dead and another is in custody… first suspect was shot dead by a civilian with a conceal and carry permit… all 8 victims are expected to survive…

4:30pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Mohamed Elibiary, Former Obama Advisor On Homeland Security, Speculates Trump Behind NYC Bombing…

Most obvious case of projection ever.
8:31pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW

…CNN covered for Hillary Clinton when it edited a statement made by the former secretary of state in response to an explosion that rocked a Manhattan Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night.

In her actual statement, the Democratic presidential nominee called the explosion a “bombing,” while at the same time chastising Donald Trump for calling it the same. Oops.…

Video on this from Mark Dice, YouTube, 2:46
8:29pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW

Unclear on the Concept

Pope Francis has urged Europeans to take in more refugees…that authentic hospitality “is our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism.”…

He must be sharing Gary Johnson's stash
10:40pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW
2

Art of

Charmian Carr will always be 16 going on 17 for fans of "The Sound of Music." In the movie… she played the rebellious Liesl von Trapp… Carr died Saturday in Woodland Hills of complications from a rare form of dementia, according to a statement from her family. She was 73.…

10:15pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Bookworm

…I might have to make an exception to my pop-opera aversion or at least an exception to one song. I am lost in delight for the way in which Trump and his supporters have taken Hillary’s “Basket of Deplorables” insult and turned it into the identifier for a political revolution. …

News analysis with links, and other info
10:27pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1793 the first cornerstone of the US Capitol building was laid by George Washington along with 8 other Freemasons all dressed in Masonic Regalia. This version of the capitol was partially destroyed by the British when they burned it in 1814.

Vic mixed the mortar.
10:45am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

This morning a pipe bomb exploded in a garbage can along the route of a USMC marathon run in New Jersey. This evening a bomb went off in a garbage can in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The first explosion caused no injuries; the second injured at least 25 people. Neither incident had anything to do with Islam.

In other news, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she will no longer use “Wir schaffen Das” (“We can do it”) as her immigration slogan.…

News summaries with links
12:54am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW

US Election 2016

Wait What? Gary Johnson: “Thankful No One Got Hurt” In NYC, NJ Bombings, MN Mass Stabbing … Dude, put down the weed. While no one got hurt in N.J., 29 people were injured in New York City and 9 people were injured in Minnesota.…

Wouldn't have this guy as dogcatcher. Video: Raw Story, YouTube, 1:14
10:37pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 18 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

A string of terror arrests have taken place after police unravelled an encrypted messaging app account of one of Islamic State’s most prominent jihadis.…

12:53pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
2

Spiritual Matters

…This event is called “Jesus & Beer” and it’s part of an effort by some Christian groups throughout the country to recruit parishioners, connect with people struggling with faith or provide a relaxed outlet to talk religion.

Call it pint-size salvation.…

Or, don't.
10:40am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

Netsurf Flotsam

…never wash a dress shirt in anything but cold water and never put it in the dryer. Saves cuffs and collars and packets and keeps em flat and smooth. Never use chlorine bleach. Presoak in borax and washing soda for a day or two before laundering as usual. No more yellow stains.

9:46am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

Grooming Ourselves

…shave with an.old fashioned safety razor and use Cremo, or a drop.of.glycerine.in your soap.mug. world of difference, and cheap.as hell. Clean face with water.and witch hazel after. Clean and.smooth and perfect. Wash your.neck and then clean with.alcohol and witch hazel.before putting on your shirt. No more ring around the collar.

9:51am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
3

Post-Racist World

Price Tower

…The Tulsa Indian Coalition Against Racism said the [Bartlesville] Indian Summer Festival and Powwow is funded with dirty money.

"This powwow group ... solicited the Redskins and asked for money," Whitecloud said.…

Gasp! The horror! I had just been wondering how this annual festival of AmerIndian culture and art had not drawn the ire of some racist thug group, and voila! At least they didn't attack the festival directly, just the "dirty" Redskin financing. It would be funnier if it weren't so sad.
1:02pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A “Palestinian” career criminal named Akram Joudeh was in Manhattan to fight a deportation order when he ran amok with a meat cleaver, attacking three police officers and seriously injuring one of them. He was shot six times by other police officers, and is now in the hospital in critical condition. Mr. Joudeh is said to have been furious because police put a boot on his illegally parked car.

In other news, Turkish police have arrested four people in connection with threats that prompted the closing of the British and German embassies in Ankara.…

News summaries with links
12:47pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

American Power: Trump Rickrolls MSM Hacks…
Joe For America: Idiot Liberal Doesn’t Know The Difference Between Legal And Illegal Immigrants…
This Ain’t Hell: We Deplorables May Have An Anthem…

News and views headline links
12:29pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

Privacy Concerns Around 'Smart' Dildos…
The fundamentals of personality do not change…
Stop the insanity! High school football fans told to stop chanting "USA, USA"…

News, views, and info headline links
12:27pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1787 the United States Constitution was formerly signed in Philadelphia at the completion of the convention. Benjamin Franklin said he was not happy with the document for various reasons.…

Vic puts the ews in the news (whut?)
10:09am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

US Election 2016

…Trump visited Little Haiti in Florida. The talk opened with a speaker railing about how the Clintons are a corrupt presence in Haiti ever since the earthquake. … By the time a black woman stood up and said that her community cannot wait for Trump to be the next president the cameraman quickly packed up and left with a group of reporters.…

Nothing to report on here, guys, let's leave.
1:44pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
Pepe the Frog

In an interview Friday with Donald Trump Jr, George Stephanopoulos claimed that he had shared a “well known symbol of the white supremacist movement,” when he shared a photoshopped image depicting his father next to Pepe the Frog.…

12:55pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
Trump, smiling

The Fraternal Order of Police – the largest police union in the nation – has given their full endorsement Republican nominee Donald Trump.… Every election year, the union sends out a detailed questionnaire to each candidate, then the members review the answers and vote on who they wish to endorse at their September meeting. Hillary Clinton refused to even return the questionnaire, which the union took as a powerful snub.

Trump, on the other hand, not only returned the questionnaire, but invited union leaders to meet with him in Trump Tower, and has honored law enforcement everywhere he goes.…

12:51pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

…Seizing on Donald Trump’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton’s bodyguards should disarm and “let’s see what happens to her,” CNN went into full Clinton-campaign mode this morning.

Leading the charge was Christi Paul, whom CNN curiously bills as an “anchor” rather than the Clinton surrogate she appears to be. Said Paul to Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord: "Let’s say Joe Schmoe out in the audience said something like that. That would be seen, most likely, as a threat of some sort, and he would be hauled away. How is it that Donald Trump gets away with it?"…

But Hillary's insecure emails? Average justice.
12:46pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
Pepe the Frog

…It has recently been revealed that a cartoon frog named Pepe, designed some decade ago for an obscure internet cartoon series, is in fact a symbol of the evil White Supremacy Movement. Although the evil White Supremacy Movement was not aware of this fact, it is so because the major networks have proclaimed it to be true.

…What we need is a stable of items that can be associated with evil Trump that can be proclaimed symbols of racism and hatred. …I will start the ball rolling…

Tapioca.…

It's der Pipple's Koob
12:39pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW

…In Hillary Clinton’s America, there are two sets of rules. One for the Little People and another for people like her.

Hillary Clinton really does believe that she is our better.

Donald Trump made that point abundantly clear last night.

So naturally the Enslaved Press has to work themselves into a lather and feign horror at what he said.

”Trump once again threatens Hillary with assassination!!!”

Yeah. Right.…

12:33pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 17 :MW
1

Nature is Dangerous

Lightning

…scientists have just announced new world records for distance and duration of single lightning flashes… The distance champ… leapt to life just south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the middle of a long line of midafternoon thunderstorms on 20 June 2007 and then shot westward nearly to the Texas border—a distance of …almost 200 miles… In addition to its cloud-to-cloud travels, the discharge also sent at least 13 bolts down to the ground,…

Just your everyday Oklahoma weather.
6:36pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

Big Brother

…The idea is simple: If you want a book, you take a book and leave another in its place. It's a nice, sweet idea that has worked out remarkably well, considering how many folks out there are Grade A jerks.

Speaking of jerks, however, the government is cracking down on such book sharing. Because of course it is.

…The L.A. Times followed up last week with a trend story:…"Crime, homelessness and crumbling infrastructure are still a problem in almost every part of America, but two cities have recently cracked down on one of the country's biggest problems: small-community libraries where residents can share books," Michael Schaub wrote.

…This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we can't have nice things.

I followed several links and ended up at littlefreelibrary.org. Cool map for finding libraries. But turns out "Little Free Library" is trademarked, and they want you to register your little free library and pay a $40 fee to do so. So I guess big brother maybe just wants his cut!
2:50am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MJ
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Art of

Edward Albee, the author of dozens of bitingly funny and scabrously caustic dramas, and one of the most important American playwrights for much of the last fifty years, died September 16 at age 88. He passed away peacefully at his home in Montauk, NY, following a short illness, according to his longtime personal assistant, Jakob Holder.…

8:23pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

Listen to the oldest melody in the world — 3400 years old.
"The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians’ goddess of the orchards Nikkal...."

The clay tablet text, which was discovered alongside around 30 other tablet fragments, specifies 9 lyre strings and the intervals between those strings – kind of like an ancient guitar tab..... The notation here is essentially a set of instructions for intervals and tuning based around a heptatonic diatonic scale.…

Video: creative*funnel, YouTube, 1:59 - and beautiful, too.
6:45pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

Cosmology

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the largest, most detailed map yet of the Milky Way. It pinpoints the 3D positions of 1.1 billion stars, almost 400 million of which were previously unknown to science.… suggests that the Milky Way is slightly bigger than previously estimated…

6:39pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

Digital Culture

Bender

Notorious runaway robot that has escaped lab twice has been arrested by police at political rally…
Police even tried to handcuff the device after a member of public called authorities to complain about the electronic device…

Artificial may be the only intelligence in politics!
4:42pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Russia, U.S. seek to prolong Syria truce but aid blocked, violence spreads…
Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills dozens in Mohmand mosque.…
Italy braces as 235,000 migrants on Libya’s coast wait to cross the Mediterranean to Europe…

News headline links
6:31pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

According to the United Nations’ envoy to Libya, 235,000 migrants are poised to emigrate from there to Italy, and will make the Mediterranean crossing as soon as it becomes feasible. This will be in addition to the 128,000 migrants who have already arrived in Italy this year.

In other news, due to security concerns in Turkey, both Britain and Germany have temporarily closed their embassies in Ankara.…

News summaries and links
6:23pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW
Bookworm

…My reply was that voters may be hoping that it’s an advantage that Trump hasn’t been a politician. He may have out-of-the-box (i.e., out-of-D.C.) ideas that actually work. The response? A reiteration that Trump is stupid.…

News analysis and links
6:19pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

American Power: Christine Amanpour Claims Media Coverage Of Hillary’s Health Is Sexist…
Shark Tank: Rubio Condemns TSA, Obama Administration Over Air Marshal Lie…
This Ain’t Hell: Vote Fraud Is “Insignificant”, Eh?…

News and views headline links
6:13pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity…
Hillary Throws Stones From Her Glass Castle…
First female soldier in Green Beret training fails to complete the course…

News, views, and info headline links
6:10pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW

The stupidity, it burns…
Hope?…
Van Gogh drinking problem rather than mental health issue?…

Irresistable headline news links
9:46am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1920 a bomb in a horse wagon exploded on Wall Street in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. This bombing was never solved but NYC police thought it was carried out the Galleanists, a group of Italian communist anarchists, who had been responsible for a series of bombings the previous year.

Vic News Network - it's the bomb, Tom said explosively.
9:17am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 16 :MW
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Digital Privacy Threat

Mordor Eye

During a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, FBI Director James Comey stood by his advice to put tape over computer webcams, calling it a “sensible” privacy precaution, on par with locking your doors at night.…

And, what, stuff cotton in the microphone? Spyware is everywhere.
10:05pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
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Now *That's* Funny!

A smart collection of dumbness pix
8:55pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW

People Live

…After 100 years of waiting, the oldest man alive is finally getting the celebration he deserves.
Israel Kristal (pictured), a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor didn’t get to celebrate becoming a man according to Jewish tradition.…

Quite a life.
11:31am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
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Defending Ourselves

On September 14 Missouri’s Republican lawmakers overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) veto of SB 656 and made Missouri the newest “Stand Your Ground” state. …the veto override also abolished permitting requirements for law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights by carrying handguns on their persons for self-defense.…

10:06pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW

Breitbart is Here

U.N. chief calls Netanyahu's 'ethnic cleansing' video 'outrageous'…
China launches second trial space station…
Rubio warns of terror attack from Cuba flights…

News headline links
10:10pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
Bookworm

First, a depressing announcement: If you pay quarterly taxes, today is one of your deadlines. Second, the fun stuff, which is a ton of clever, thoughtful, and informative posters…

8:54pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW

Britain’s Socialized Medicine Is Close to Collapse…
The NYT working hard to damage Trump …
Clinton Surrogate Blames Christianity For Campaign’s Lies About Hillary’s Health…

News, views, and info headline links
11:24am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW

Arrgh, The Stupid Party…
Obama's phone and pen actions are pretty expensive…
Beef its what not for dinner in India…

Play "Mystery News Headline Links" and… become better informed, maybe.
10:57am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1981 the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Flip-Flop to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Like a lot of justices appointed by Republicans she started out as primarily a conservative ruling with the Constitution but slowly began to vote liberal on key cases where she earned her "flip-flop" reputation.…

Vic's round-up of the news may make you flip, but he will not flop. (What?)
10:35am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

In a secret report, German intelligence warns that Germany can expect a terrorist attack like the one that happened in Nice in July. Large crowds in public spaces are the most likely targets, such as concerts, festivals, airports, and railway stations.

In other news, a man named Joseph Schreiber has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to an Orlando mosque where Omar Mateen, the Pulse nightclub killer, worshipped.…

News summaries with links
2:54am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW

US Election 2016

Ace of Spades

Leaked DNC Emails Discuss Pay-for-Play Scheme For Ambassadorships By Cunningly Using the Codewords "Pay for Play"

It's hard to claim you're not talking about a pay-for-play scheme when the actual words you're using are "pay for play."…

All I see here is a strong, capable woman POWERING THROUGH a list of pay for play donors and courageously doling out ambassadorships.…

10:19pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
Hillary

There's no such thing as "non-contagious bacterial pneumonia."

That's pure fiction. Find a medical textbook with it. #HillarysHealth

— Dr. Milton Wolf

7:35pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 15 :MW
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Government at Play

…An FBI source, as part of the Clinton Email scandal investigation, purportedly took to a deep anonymous website to reveal shocking information about the findings of their investigation. The FBI source details the turmoil they faced in the magnitude of what was discovered.

The key breakthrough on the severity of how big this scandal is started from the recovery of files from the Benghazi computer hard drives. It all led back to the Clinton Foundation. …

…The most disturbing part of the FBI analyst’s insider’s knowledge, is the implications of the widespread corruption that could be revealed to Americans in future email leaks. The FBI source stated that it is so egregious that it could spark a civil war within the U.S. and bring down the U.S. government.…

9:22pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Bookworm

I had the pleasure of listening to a delightful well-informed, thoughtful speaker: Brian Calle, who is the Opinion Editor of the Southern California News Group and oversees Opinion content for its 11 newspapers and websites, including the well-regarded Orange County Register.…

Amusing and depressing posters
11:21pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW

American Power: Killings In Chicago Hit A 20-Year High…
Shark Tank: A Tale of Two “Deplorables”…
Megan McArdle: Banks And Colleges Are Wasting Our Money…

News and views headline links
11:18pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW

Dutch police fight drones with eagles…
U.S. tech firms urge Congress to allow internet domain changeover…
Why a Trump victory in November is a virtual certainty…

News, views, and info headline links
11:14pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

With great fanfare the French government unveiled the country’s first de-radicalization center, where it is hoped that young Muslims may be deterred from becoming Islamists. In possibly unrelated news, the French government also promised more financial aid to the country’s tourism industry, which has declined severely in the wake of a series of jihad attacks.

In other news, Jean Asselborn, the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, says that Hungary should be suspended from the European Union for treating refugees like animals.…

News summaries with links
11:12pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW

US destroys 'Islamic State' chemical weapons plant in Iraq…
US ambassador to Italy in firestorm over referendum remarks…
Republican pushes for resolution to allow Gitmo lawsuit…

News headline links
11:10pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW

Chuckle worthy…
That is rich!…
Military Academy can't distinguish gun fire from bubble wrap. FFS…

One out of three of these headline news links actually gives a clue
10:25pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW
Geezer

… On this day in 1994 the Major League Baseball season was canceled because of a strike. I had already pretty much given up on baseball except when Atlanta was in the playoffs. But this was it for me. I have never watched another baseball game after this and that includes the World Series.

Vic's news was up at 6am (E) as usual.

Your blog-heaper had a long day doing other things, so this is all much later than usual.

9:28pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 14 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

A South Korean military source told the national outlet Yonhap that his government is ready to reduce Pyongyang “to ashes” after the latest North Korean nuclear test, with “every Pyongyang district… completely destroyed.”…

7:17pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

Political Theater

Four Americans died in the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, and those who survived saw their stories of heroism told in a Hollywood movie, but the filmmaker whose work was wrongly blamed for touching off the event lives in obscurity, poverty and fear… “I don’t believe in democracy anymore… I don’t think there is such a thing as freedom of speech.”…

5:57pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
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Feeding Ourselves

Banana

…"With a pure plant-based diet, it is difficult or impossible to attain an adequate supply of some nutrients," states the German Nutrition Society's new position on the vegan diet. "The most critical nutrient is B-12," which is found in eggs and meat. The group says if you follow a vegan diet, you should take supplements to protect against deficiencies.

…other "potentially critical nutrients" that may be a challenge to get in a vegan diet include omega-3s — found in fatty fish — as well as minerals such as calcium, iron, iodine, zinc and selenium. So the group recommends that vegans get advice from a nutrition counselor and be "regularly checked by a physician." In addition, the society recommends against a vegan diet for pregnant women, women who are breast-feeding, children and adolescents.…

6:00pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Don Surber: What Happened To Her Landslide?…
The Jawa Report: CankleGate II!…
Megan McArdle: Clinton Never Learns That The World Sees Every Stumble…

News and views headline links
9:18pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
Bookworm

I’m going to divide this post into “Hillary stuff” and everything else. Let’s go to town and have fun.

News analysis with links
8:34pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

Proof Positive: Go Home, Hillary! You’re Drunk!…
Don Surber: Who Replaces Hillary?…
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries…

News and views headline links
8:29pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

Arrest warrant issued for journalist Amy Goodman after covering Dakota Access Pipeline protests…
Hillary ‘Attack Ad’ On Trump’s Immigration Plan Ends Up Being Pro-Trump…
Bill Clinton’s terrorism strategy led to 9/11. Hillary Clinton’s is the exact same thing…

News, views, and info headline links
8:21pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

More than 3,000 people have been shot so far this year in Chicago, which is already more than last year’s record total. Homicides in 2016 have also passed last year’s total, with more than 500.

In other news, a ban on the burkini in Viennese swimming pools has prompted protests from Austria’s Muslim community.…

News summaries and links
8:13pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

Damascus claims IDF warplane & drone shot down in Syria after attack, Israel denies…
Spy agencies concerned about possible U.S. election hacks: NSA chief…
Thousands march in Mexico against proposal to allow same-sex marriage…

News headline links
8:07pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
Nightmouse

Kate Upton: ‘Horrific’ that NFL Players Would Kneel During Anthem on 9/11…
CNN Says It’s Sexist to Say Sick Hillary is ‘Weak’ After Collapsing and Catching Pneumonia…
North Korea defied world with nuclear test. Now it seeks aid for flood disaster.…

News summaries with links
7:50pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

Kick the can…
That didn't last long…
Who says nothing exciting ever happens in Maine?…

News headline links incognito
11:14am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1814 in the War of 1812, the British attacked and failed to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composed his poem "Defense of Fort McHenry", which was later set to music of "To Anacreon in Heaven", with various lyrics, which was already popular in the United States. The poem with music was renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", and it soon became a well-known American patriotic song. It became the United States' national anthem by act of congress in 1931.…

Vic News Network - the finest in reporting and commentary
8:38am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

US Election 2016

At the Donald J. Trump for President rally in Asheville, NC at U.S. Cellular Center, Mr. Trump invited some supporters on stage to respond to Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables' comment.

Video: 5:58
6:04pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW

…It’s understandable that the Democrats don’t want to admit they selected a very sick person to represent their party… But that’s what they have done, and she is what they are now saddled with.…

Diagnosing Hillary's condition
5:55pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 13 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

A hallway mural of the Ten Commandments and a painted Bible verse came under fire by Wisconsin atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which sent a letter demanding a west Texas school district cover it or risk a lawsuit. …When students came to school Thursday, both were covered up, the Ten Commandments shrouded beneath the American flag…

The FFRF is the enemy of religious liberty. And how do they have any standing in Texas? Cowardly school officials!!
1:53pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

A British sniper took out a feared ISIS executioner as he prepared to murder several hostages by shooting a fuel tank on his back and incinerating him. …was about to use a flame thrower to kill 12 …bullet hit the flame thrower's fuel tank and caused a huge fireball, also killing three other ISIS members who were ready to film the execution.…

1:47pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

A fire broke out at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce in Florida shortly after midnight on Monday morning, evidently serious enough for flames to be seen from outside the building. This was the mosque attended by Omar Mateen, the mass murderer who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The authorities quickly determined that the fire was intentionally set.…

1:42pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

9/11 - still with us

While we take time this day to remember each in our own way 9/11, we should note that this is also the fourth anniversary of the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead: Christopher Stevens, an American ambassador; Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, former Navy SEALS; Sean Smith, an embassy aide.

1:43pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW
WTC

List Of Links, Tributes, Videos, Pictures And Resources

Sorry I didn't get this blogged yesterday.
11:14am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

How to Pick the Fastest Line at the Supermarket…
Florida Supreme Court rules doctors can be liable if patients commit suicide…
Obama purged military of those who sought victory…

News, views, and info headline links
12:09pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The big news story of the day was Hillary Clinton’s medical emergency at the 9-11 commemoration in New York City. Mrs. Clinton became indisposed and left early, and was said to have had a moment of “overheating”. However, the campaign was later forced to admit that the candidate had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, and had become dehydrated. She has now been rehydrated, and is being treated with antibiotics.

In other news, in cities across Catalonia, hundreds of thousands of Catalans rallied in support of independence from Spain.…

News summaries with links
12:06pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

Thoughtless, selfish, downright rude…
The Moron Power Company has a nice ring to it…
Make your own Michelle Obama jokes…

Make up your own stories, or click these news headline links to find out what.
12:00pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW
Political Hat

Donald Trump Is Killing Republicans With Minorities…
Obama Admin: Relying On “Common Sense” Violates Title IX…
Massachusetts Government Can Force Transgender Bathroom Policies On Churches, Guidance Says…

Lots of brief news summaries, with links
10:36am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 490 BC (conventionally accepted date). The Athenians and a few Plataean allies, defeated the first Persian invasion force of Greece at the Battle of Marathon. This is considered the turning point in the wars between Greece and the Persians (who later became the muzzies).…

Tired of the Communist major media? Try Vic News Network! You'll be glad you did
9:54am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

US Election 2016

When a mysterious piece of metal flies out of her pant leg, is this a broken leg brace? Someone?…

Video: 0:38 - Theories range from a dropped key to a piece of her exoskeleton.
1:50pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

…After the video footage showing Hillary Clinton’s inert carcass being loaded into her van had blown up the Internet, CNN had to change its tune.

By late last night their story went from “She’s totally healthy” to “Hey, come on! Lots of presidents had illnesses!” in no time flat. … When the snow-job doesn’t work, CNN falls back on their stand-by “Well, oh yeah?” reporting technique.…

Dianny gets off some good licks a lot of the time. "Inert carcass" - heh.
1:40pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW

Videos constructed from public sources that show the true Hillary Clinton.

Video: 16:36
10:45am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 12 :MW
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Digital Threat

…Obama’s most damaging legacy may not be his enabling of the terrorists running Iran after all. Giving away control of the Internet to foreign powers who do not share America’s commitment to freedom may be worse still. Ted Cruz outlines the threat it poses to economic freedom, political liberty, national security, and rule of law under the Constitution…

2:25pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

9/11 - still with us

…Graphic video for educational purposes only. Most footage never aired on TV or only on that day. …

Video: 18:04. Very graphic, terribly moving as one after another people fall.
2:19pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

This is a rare 9/11 WTC attack footage…

Video: 0:50
2:05pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

Inside 7 World Trade Center Moments Before Collapse.…

Video: 5:57
2:03pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

The American Veterans Center proudly presents Rick Rescorla in an AVC Tribute Video.

Video: 8:02
1:56pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

…When I started interviewing these veterans of my regiment decades later, I was struck by the emotions Rescorla’s men still felt for him. … Over time, I came to believe that they would have followed Rescorla in an assault upon the gates of Hell, for he did not order, he led.…

WHEN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, Rick was there. .… Various employees of Morgan Stanley report his presence across all 20 floors occupied by the company. Just as in combat, he was everywhere — calm, jocular in the face of panic, reassuring in his personal presence.… When it appeared that everyone was out, he went back in, heading up those stairs with the rescue workers.…

1:54pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

In an appearance on CNN, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in “the basket of deplorables”, are “irredeemable”, and “not American”. These objectionable people, according to Mrs. Clinton, are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,” etc.

In other news, the Austrian city of Wels established a curfew for asylum seekers in an attempt to reduce the number of sex attacks on women at a beer and wine festival in the town.…

News summaries with links
11:24pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW
Geezer

…Today is Sunday, September 11, 2016 a day which shall live in infamy for those who do remember. And unfortunately that list of people grows smaller every day. I said then that it would not take long for the Democrats to switch back to their anti-American squeal and it didn't. The big political news of that day was that Obama's pen and phone had ordered ICE to admit another 100,000 fake Syrian refugee muzzies to the US in 2016.…

Vic. 'Nuff said.
11:38am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary could not stand. Needed pillar and staffer's "medical carry" for support. …

Video: 0:18 - Clearer camera view of how badly she's doing.
2:08pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

Video shows Clinton’s ‘medical episode’ at 9/11 ceremony… Clinton appears to collapse as she leaves event … a witness told Fox News that Clinton stumbled off the curb, her "knees buckled" and she lost a shoe as she was helped into a van during her "unexpected early departure."…

1:49pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

"Hillary Clinton has 1 Year to Live," says Medical School Professor… I will not provide my exact credentials because several people who have tried to speak out against Hillary Clinton have been killed (look up "Clinton Body Count"). …

Video: 10:22
1:40pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was given a standing ovation today at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica funeral for Phyllis Schlafly in St. Louis.… Donald told the packed Basilica Cathedral, “Phyllis was ALWAYS America first!”…

11:36am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 11 :MW
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Obamanation

Whacky O

…the special operations force traveled swiftly to recover two hostages, but were ordered to stand down because Obama did not have time to approve the mission.

Obama approved the mission a day later, but when the special forces team returned, the hostages had been moved just four hours earlier…

Obama was busy… golfing
11:13am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

Wars and Rumors

The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have reportedly identified restaurants, theaters, churches, and sports arenas as possible targets of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-inspired jihadists and homegrown violent extremists, urging law enforcement to remain vigilant for potential attacks against civilian venues.…

This is news?
11:11am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

Sex can be... disturbing

Italy’s highest court has ruled that public masturbation is no longer a crime in Italy, exonerating a 69-year-old man who had been convicted of “autoeroticism” performed in front of a group of female students at the University of Catania last May.…

Incomprehensible. Caligula would approve.
11:15am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

9/11 - still with us

AFTER 15 YEARS, Australian Photographer tracks down family from photo he found in the rubble of the World Trade Center 9/11……

Video
8:07pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

…A veteran of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces who understood Arabic, [Danny Lewin, 31,] appears to have immediately understood what was happening and challenged the terrorists, who were armed with box-cutters and knives. It was an act of extraordinary courage which was to cost him his life. As the former commando fought with Satam al-Suqami, one of the five who had taken the plane, he was fatally stabbed.…

8:04pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
WTC

Nick Swainston still remembers what it smelled like.

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest foreign attack on the United States. Swainston was the operations chief with the Tulsa Air National Guard and a Tulsa firefighter when the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.…

When he was able to make it to New York in November, he said he had never seen anything like it.

"Even working in Afghanistan and Baghdad, it was just so much of it in one area," Swainston said.…

11:17am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

Miracle Mattress has announced they are closing a store in San Antonio following the backlash over a 9/11 'Twin Tower sale.'

Miracle Mattress posted the video on Facebook for its "Twin Towers Sale." In the video, which has since been deleted, Miracle Mattress manager Cherise Bonanno is heard saying "What better way to remember 9/11 than with a Twin Tower sale?"…

Mark Dice has a video which includes the original ad: YouTube, 2:09
11:05am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

What do I think about when I think about that day? The firemen who climbed “the stairway to Heaven” with 50, 60 pounds of gear. The people who called from Windows on the World and said: “I just want you to know I love you.” The men on the plane who tried to take the cockpit of Flight 93 before it went down in a Pennsylvania field: “Let’s roll.”

And I think about Welles Crowther, the man in the red bandanna.
…Welles Crowther had already called his mother, Alison, and left a voicemail: “I want you to know that I’m OK.” Only one stairwell was clear. He found it. Most people would have run for their lives, but he started running for everyone else’s.

Well worth reading the whole thing. There is a sign-in page on the full article at the Wall Street Journal.
10:22am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MJ

AmerIndian Wars - Still With Us

…Earlier Friday, a federal judge denied a request by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for an injunction against the Army Corps of Engineers to stop construction on the pipeline, which will carry 400,000 barrels of oil per day from the Bakken region to an existing Illinois pipeline.

However, the Obama administration intervened, and the Army voluntarily blocked construction on land owned by the Corps or under Lake Oahe in South Dakota.…

11:07am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
2

Feeding Ourselves

shoo-fly pie is a baked molasses or golden syrup pudding…

Why not?
10:51am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

Animal Companions

BoB
"Cats and dogs living together!" D'aawwww alert - Kitties and their doggies as cushions
8:19pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

WW2 - less with us

Greta Friedman gained fame when a photographer captured the moment when a soldier grabbed her in Times Square and planted a kiss on her as America celebrated the end of World War II. It quickly became an iconic picture.

Her son Joshua confirmed the 92-year-old nurse passed away this morning.…

She will live forever in the pictures.
8:00pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
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Voting Rights

…A federal appeals court on Friday blocked Kansas, Georgia and Alabama from requiring residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when registering to vote using a national form.…

Citing AP report
7:58pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Clark University Comes Up With More Microaggressions…
Ethanol Worse for Environment Than Gasoline…
"I hate Christians and Jews. I don't know why. I don't have any apparent reason to hate them but I always hear my mom talking badly about them. She hates them too, and this is why I hate them, I guess."…

News, views, and info headline links
12:03pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Al-Shabaab terrorists say that they killed four Kenyan police officers in an attack on the border post at Mandera, at the crossing between Kenya and Somalia. However, a local Kenyan political leader denied that any officers were killed during the attack.

In other news, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is intensifying his publicity push in the run-up to the referendum on whether to accept EU refugee quotas. The referendum requires a 50% voter turnout in order to be binding.…

News summaries with links
11:56am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
Nightmouse

Leaked Memo: George Soros Foundation Seeking to Expand U.S. Online Voting…
Mayor Patrick Rushing: “I’m Not Racist, I Just Think That Michelle Obama Looks Like A Gorilla”…
Facebook’s Co-Founder Drops $20M To Stop Trump From Winning Election…

News summaries with links
11:47am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

Twitchy: Who Gets To Tell President Obama The Bad News On North Korea?…
American Thinker: The D.C. Gaslight District…
Weasel Zippers: Bill Clinton Mocks “Coal People” Of Kentucky, West Virginia For Supporting Trump…

News and views headline links
11:23am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1955 the television series Gunsmoke premiered on CBS. It was one of the longest running TV shows ever; going until 1975. The original show was much more gritty that what it was when it finally ended. It had become more PC and "kinder and gentler" by the time it finally shut down.…

Vic sets up the news as his target, then Matt Dillons it full of holes.
9:48am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary Faced

…“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a lengthy statement. But she added, “I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign.”…

Well, then, what is the percentage, Madame Secretary Senator? 47% maybe?
7:56pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW

…It seems Senate Democrats, having discovered when it comes to running for President, their nominee sucks, have decided to give her a little last-minute advice to improve her electoral chances.

Relax a little Hillary. Show the voters your heart. Be a little more approachable.…

Or, maybe these disappointed Democrats are hoping Hillary will go to bed tonight and get visited by three spirits.

Hey, it worked for Scrooge!…

Funny work by Dianny
11:21am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
Hillary Guzzling

…[Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)] said, “I do want to warn, since most people here are Christians—and I’m serious about this—a true believer knows what Jesus did, and still does. You don’t make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs. And whether you like her or not, Hillary Clinton has made clear she is mentally impaired. And this is not somebody you should be making fun of.…"

11:10am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
Haggard Hillary

…“Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans,” Senior Communications Advisor for the Trump campaign Jason Miller said in a statement. “Tonight’s comments were more than another example of Clinton lying to the country about her emails, jeopardizing our national security, or even calling citizens ‘super-predators’ – this was Clinton, as a defender of Washington’s rigged system – telling the American public that she could care less about them…”

9:51am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 10 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Jesus Christ is no longer welcome at a school district in Tipton, Missouri. And neither are prayers or a religious hymn.

The Tipton R-VI School District decided to cleanse itself of anything remotely affiliated with Christianity after they were bullied by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. They even pulled down a giant portrait of our Lord that was displayed in the grade school’s library.

The FFRF is a Wisconsin-based group of perpetually offended atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers. They fired off a nasty letter to the school board claiming to represent a “concerned attendee” of the annual high school awards program.…

Vic notes: "It would … be nice to get some of these local judges to explain how an atheist individual from WI can meet the requirements for standing in a case in MO involving an elementary school."
10:21am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW

Threats

Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud

…At an estimated 10 kilotons, it's thought to be the most powerful explosion yet.…

Links to several related articles
11:25am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW
2

Animal Companions

A stray pit bull has a new home a month after saving a Georgia woman from a knife attack — while getting stabbed himself.

The pooch was named 'Hero' after the July 22 incident in Baldwin, when he lunged toward a male attacker and saved a saved the female victim.

Hero was stabbed five times and was left for dead, until a pair of police officers found him and took him to a local veterinary.… In emergency surgery, Hero died twice but pulled through despite the odds.…

He has now been adopted by Sara and David Simpson, of Tennessee — and even has two doggy friends in his new home.…

10:53am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW

It came from the sky

Meteor, not asteroid

…Wednesday… an asteroid… which NASA discovered just two days before it happened… …passed about 25,000 miles (40,000km) from our collective home, roughly one tenth the distance between the Earth and the moon.… NASA claims it’s the closest an asteroid will come to Earth for “at least the next half century.”…

Even though they didn't even know about this one until two days before it visited? Right.
10:46am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW
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US Judicial Branch

…Barack Hussein Obama has appointed the first Muslim federal judge, a Pakistani immigrant who has practiced law in the United States for 10 years and was educated at American universities, but it’s his ties to Islamic jihadists, including those in the Saudi Arabian government, that should be enough to get the Senate to reject the nomination.…

11:23am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW

Breitbart is Here

BBC: North Korea's 'biggest' nuclear test sparks global outrage…
Iraq gears up for late-year push to retake Mosul from Islamic State…
Hajj 2016: More than a million Muslims head to Mecca…

News headline links
5:10pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW

Dear Media: It Is Not News When ‘Transgender Men’ Get Pregnant…
Hillary's Health Concerns Serious, Say Most Doctors Polled by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons…
China to Expand Military Reach with a Fleet of the World’s Largest Planes…

News and views headline links
11:10am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A total of seven people have now been arrested in connection with the car full of gas cylinders that was parked outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Three women were arrested today, and one of the three stabbed a police officer before being shot. She is said to be the daughter of the man who owned the car loaded with gas cylinders.

In other news, the FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party) caused controversy by proposing to celebrate the 333rd anniversary of the breaking of the Siege of Vienna on September 12th.…

News summaries with links
11:04am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW

Democrats philosophy, "Two wrongs make a right"…
Is this a sign of things to come? Stay tuned we'll find out in November.…
A penny for your thoughts…

To be fair, many of the news headline links are more discernible than the ones selected here.
10:40am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1965 the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development was established when one of the worst Presidents in history signed the "Housing and Urban Development Act" into law. This unconstitutional POS law was passed by an overwhelming Democrat majority in both the Senate and House. It immediately set off to become one of the most corrupt agencies in the Federal Government.…

Vic catches the top news in his butterfly net - then pins it for our elucidation.
10:12am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW

US Election 2016

Okla Flag

…Donald J. Trump is almost certain to win Oklahoma's electoral votes.…
James Lankford is almost certain to retain his Senate seat.…

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11:28am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 9 :MW
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Untied States

Hemp

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Sept. 8, 2016) – Medical marijuana officially became legal in Ohio today, marking the step forward toward nullifying the unconstitutional federal prohibition on cannabis in practice.…

8:28pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

End of the World As We Know It

Filmmaker, actor and outspoken Donald Trump detractor Rob Reiner…

…is still a meathead
9:36pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
2

Marriage Today

DUNCAN, Okla. – A mother and daughter from Oklahoma are accused of having an incestuous marriage.… [Mother] told officials she didn’t think she was breaking any laws by marrying Misty because her name is no longer listed on her daughter’s birth certificate.… Court records show this isn’t the first time Patricia has married one of her own children.…

But at least both were "of age," right? So, it's all good. ((o_O))
6:51pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Earth Shakes

Earthquake

…The earthquake centered in northeast Oklahoma on Saturday was upgraded to magnitude 5.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey on Wednesday, making it the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the state.…

10:09am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

Donald Duck
Hilarious, unfortunate consequence of - probably automated - web ad placement
7:01pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Man and Woman

Men and Women

…Brown University… announced that they will be providing tampons for both men’s and women’s bathrooms across the university this academic year… because ‘both sexes menstruate’…

Apparently, Brown education does not include basic biology.
7:54pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
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Defending Ourselves

…holsters, corsets, camisoles and other clothing designed to be flattering, feminine — and functional — for the pistol-packin' mama crowd. … "I don't want to dress in tactical gear and camo all the time. I love tactical clothing for the range. It's comfortable. I don't want to ruin my everyday clothing," said Marilyn Smolenski, who in 2012 created Nickel and Lace, a company that caters to women who want to carry a firearm concealed but don't want to trade in their femininity. "But I don't want to wear it to the grocery store."…

7:44pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

In New Zealand, six-year-old Sarah Patel attacked the ax-wielding men who tried to rob her family’s shop.…

CCTV Video
6:57pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Da Tech Guy: A Conservative Respite In Flyover Country…
Don Surber: Trump May Dump Three Cabinet Positions…
Power Line: Director Comey’s Strange Memo To FBI Employees…

News and views headline links
9:38pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Palestinian court suspends local elections…
As Mao death anniversary nears, supporters push back in China…
Guantánamo downsizes by closing one prison, cutting 400 troops…

News headline links
8:34pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
Bookworm

The older of my two dogs is very high-strung and she got so frightened by the wind that carried the fog in tonight that I’ve had to sequester her and me in my home office so that Mr. Bookworm, who needs to get up for work tomorrow, can sleep. She shows no signs of settling, so I’m blogging.…

Analysis with news links
8:30pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Five Awful Plants for the Front of Your House…
All the Lies: They’ve Turned Us Into a Rotting Banana Republic…
Pollster John Zogby: Trump 'Can Actually Win'…

News and views headline links
8:22pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
Nightmouse

Yes, “Unarmed” People Often Deserve To Be Shot…
Trump would give generals 30 days for IS plan…
Granting Divorce Rights to Women Will Encourage Men to Burn or Kill Wife, Says Muslim Law Board…

News summaries with links
7:43pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Twitchy: Donald Trump Jr. Trolls Hillary With A Visit To Her Super-Secure IT Provider…
Power Line: How Left-Wing Is Facebook?…
The Quinton Report: Bacon Fire Shuts Down Interstate…

News and views headline links
6:54pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
Bookworm

…with 55 (count ’em! 55!) funny, thoughtful images… A pollster called me today and asked, “What race are you?” I answered, “Human.” He said it was the best answer he’d ever heard. I pass it on to all of you to use as you will.…

10:14am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A car left parked in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris contained seven gas cylinders, one of them empty. No detonation device was attached to the cylinders, but written material in Arabic was found in the car. Two people were later arrested in connection with the incident.

In other news, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority accused Iran’s leaders of not being Muslims.…

News summaries with links
10:11am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW

Russia flips us off again…
It appears that Obama put on his big boy pants…
Nigerians claim they were discriminated against…

There's news links buried in them thar headlines!
8:03am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
Geezer

…On this date in 1930 3M began marketing the ubiquitous Scotch transparent tape.

Vic clips the news and tapes it up on your screen for you
7:36am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 8 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

The ‘radicalised’ owner of a car found packed with gas cylinders close to Notre Dame cathedral has been arrested… jihadi is a woman… The father told the police that his daughter is “radicalized” and she tried to join jihadist combat areas.…

4:31pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW
3

Defending Ourselves

In his latest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, John R. Lott Jr. points shows that from 1950 to 2010, not one mass public shooting took place in an area where citizens could arm themselves in self-defense.…

4:25pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

‘We wired it’: Emails suggest Clinton aide stage-managed Benghazi hearing questions…
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Brady Campaign Goes Into Hysterics Pushing Gun Control As Congress Returns From Recess…
Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats…

News summaries with links
4:29pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

UN: Fighting displaces 100,000 in central Syria in 8 days…
Suspected gang members shoot down police helicopter in Mexico…
Australia's PM gives terror warning at Asean summit…

News headline links
4:23pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The British government is financing the construction of a “big new wall” along the motorway that leads to the Channel Tunnel near Calais. The concrete wall will be half a mile long and thirteen feet high, and is designed to deter would-be migrants from climbing into lorries bound for Britain. Construction work on it may begin this month.

In other news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to host talks in Moscow between the Israelis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.…

News summaries with links
4:16pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

Cats are bird killers. These animal experts let theirs outside anyway…
Republicans for Clinton: Why we oppose Trump…
UN human rights office accused of 'bizarre' behaviour after condemning the 'free market'…

News and views headline links
4:13pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

Twitchy: Hillary Polling Behind Trump? No Problem! MSNBC’s Got Her Back…
Da Tech Guy: Question For NBC News And The Clinton Campaign – Where Are All The Other Coughers?…
Power Line: Green Weenie Of The Week – Barbecue Deniers…

News and views headline links
4:10pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

America, is this a great country or what?…
Cuba what a wonderful country…
GOP the stupid party…

Generic headlines link to specific news
9:19am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1916 railroad employees won the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751). This showed the impact of the burgeoning age of progressivism in the US and the beginning of the fall of the Constitution. The name of this law was wholly false as the law only applied to RR workers. A similar law had been passed in 1906 but the Supremes struck it down because it was not limited to workers involved in interstate commerce. Congress got some new court members and went back to the trough. We have workers comp for everybody now.…

Vic rolls up the news and lights it afire
9:11am CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

US Election 2016

The Green Party Presidential Nominee faces criminal charges after allegedly vandalizing construction equipment at an energy pipeline site with hundreds of other protesters.…

Hey, as long as we're charging Presidential candidates for crimes, about Hillary…
6:26pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW
Red Star Hammer & Sickle

…now that John Bachtell, the national chair of the Communist Party USA, has put his support behind Hillary, where are the news media? Instead of raising an alarm, the news is met with the sound of crickets and tumbleweeds.…

Because Bernie was no longer an option.
6:21pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

In an appearance on BBC’s “Newsnight” that aired Tuesday, comedienne Amy Schumer vowed to move to Spain if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wins the presidential election.…

Hope she's not joking
4:26pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW

The Hillary Clinton press corps is soldiering on despite hazardous work conditions…

Amusing pic
3:59pm CDT Wed 2016 Sep 7 :MW
1

History - less with us

“Phyllis Schlafly spent an astounding 70 years in public service of her fellow Americans,” said the Eagle Forum in a statement. “Her focus from her earliest days until her final ones was protecting the family, which she understood as the building block of life.

… She had a pie smashed into her face and pig’s blood thrown on her, and feminist Betty Friedan once told Schlafly: “I’d like to burn you at the stake.” She was chastised in a 1970s “Doonesbury” a framed copy of which hung on her office wall.

“What I am defending is the real rights of women,” Schlafly said at the time. “A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”

Thirty-five states ratified the (Equal Rights) amendment, three short of the necessary 38. Schlafly said amendment supporters couldn’t prove it was needed.

“They were never able to show women would get any benefit out of it,” she told the Associated Press in 2007. “It (the U.S. Constitution) is already sex-neutral. Women already have all the rights that men have.”

She was mocked for saying the ERA would allow men in women's rooms. Shows what she knew. We didn't need no stinking ERA, just a pen & a phone!
h/t: Drudge
12:03am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MJ

Under Tyranny

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention literally has overstepped its authority in proposing to grant itself powers that obviously negate any rights U.S. citizens thought they had by issuing the Proposed Rule “Control of Communicable Diseases” on August 15, 2016 wherein CDC will self-invest itself with the power to apprehend healthy people en masse and detain them indefinitely with NO process of appeal!…

11:57am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
2

Art of

It was 50 years ago, on 5 September 1966, that the cameras rolled for the first time in the Italianate village of Portmeirion as filming got under way for the cult 1960s adventure TV show The Prisoner.…

11:30am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
3

Securing Our Borders

…Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, acting in his role as president of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 2455, appeared on Fox News Channel recently to discuss border security and the need for building a wall. “Eight out of ten people that are caught entering our country illegally are not deported and are allowed to stay in the United States,” Garza explained. “Unfortunately for Border Patrol agents, we are trying to do our jobs as best we can with the very limited resources that we have.”…

11:59am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Bookworm

…I went to Dr. Bing and checked out what illnesses are associated with chronic coughing. …

News analysis and links
8:56pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW

Renewed Turkey-Kurds conflict has killed nearly 2,000…
North Korea fires three ballistic missiles in G20 show of power…
ISIS planned for more operatives, targets during Paris attacks…

News headline links
8:49pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
Nightmouse

Orwellian: Feds Spend $500,000 to Tap “Extensive Tracking Infrastructure” to “Combat Online Trolling”…
Oklahoma: Police question man who asked library to stop promoting Islam on cars…
France Deploys Army After Migrants Cause Car Crashes Trying To Hijack Rides Britain…

News summaries with links
12:03pm CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The news feed is very light tonight. Maybe because it’s Labor Day, there’s no real news — as long as Tropical Storm Hermine stays far away from the urban warrens of East Coast progressives, that is.

In migration news, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration says that up to 40% of the country’s registered migrants have disappeared. The monitoring system charged with tracking them can no longer find them.

In other news, President Obama called off a planned meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after the latter called him “son of a whore”.…

News summaries with links
11:55am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW

New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians…
Kathleen Willey: I Overheard White House Staff Teaching Hillary Her Trademark ‘I Don’t Recall’ Defense…
The Kurds, against all odds…

News and views headline links
11:53am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
Bookworm

…Hillary sounds exactly like the consumptive prostitute coughing in Ernie Kovacs’ comedic moment.…

News analysis and links
11:47am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW

Snowflake protection continues…
When life hands you lemons spiders…
Missing probe found, cell calls still dropped…

News headline links, misanthropically mysterious
8:35am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1935 FDR created the WPA with Executive Order 7034. However, unlike Obama, congress had already approved this action and had allocated money for it.

Vic dozed off, but still got the news in
8:18am CDT Tue 2016 Sep 6 :MW
1

Digital Threat

Radioactive

President Barack Obama called for a series of international agreements to regulate activity on the Internet, citing his preference not to start an arms race in cyberspace.…

8:29pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
2

1960s - less with us

Actor Hugh O’Brian, most known for playing Wyatt Earp on television, died Monday in his Beverly Hills home. He was 91.

O’Brian earned success in his role of titular lawman Earp in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp from 1955 to 1961. During his time on the hit series, the performer founded the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) in 1958 to establish a new generation of leaders in the volunteer and service fields. To date, over 470,000 people have participated in the leadership programs the organization offers. …

8:22pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW

Animal Culture

Dog
Change-of-pace for this site, some pooped-out puppy pix
7:36pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW

Energy

…Four private security guards and police dogs were injured when they were confronted by hundreds of protesters outside of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Tribal spokesman Sitting Bear reported that six protesters—including one child—had been bitten by security dogs. Sitting Bear also indicated that at least thirty protesters had been pepper-sprayed during the encounter. However, according to local law enforcement, no injuries of protesters had been reported, and no arrests were made.…

Whoever brought the child was particularly irresponsible!
8:24pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW

Man and Woman

A Texas Supreme Court Justice has issued a dissenting opinion stating that while the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that same-sex couples may marry, the U.S. Constitution does not necessarily require cities to offer benefits to same-sex spouses of employees. While marriage may be a fundamental right, spousal benefits are not. He says that the same constitutional strict scrutiny does not apply to employment benefits.…

7:33pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Bookworm

…a huge batch of wonderful cartoons and posters, with more to follow in the coming days.…

8:46pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
Joe Dan Gorman

Like Hillary herself… in order to support Hillary, you must be a criminal or a dumbass. And if you’re not in her inner circle— that rules out criminal…

Latest episode of Joe Dan Gorman's work: Video: Vimeo or YouTube, 22:33
8:43pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW

College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults…
Why Now is the Right Time to Talk About Ethanol…
Here are a bunch of ways Hillary Clinton has avoided talking to journalists…

News and views headline links
8:34pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a severe electoral setback in her home state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In state elections today, AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) came in second, ahead of Mrs. Merkel’s CDU. The SPD (Socialists) came in first.

In other news, five Afghan culture-enrichers were arrested in Austria on suspicion of sexually harassing women at a wine festival.…

News summaries with links
11:16am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
Nightmouse

13 mobile devices. 2 devices recovered. 11 devices still missing. Hillary Clinton was more than just “careless”…
Report: ‘British Muslim Male 170 Times More Likely to Be Part of a Sex Grooming Gang Than a Non-Muslim’…
Five Ways to Keep the Lights on When the Power Fails…

News summaries with links
11:09am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
Political Hat

Kaine once blocked three potential jurors from hearing a case because they were white…
Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration…
Child aged four receiving help to undergo sex change in Australia…

Brief news summaries with links
11:02am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW

You don't need no stinking news.…

Mis. Hum. takes Labor Day off
8:53am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1891 Carnegie Hall (called The Music Hall at the time) first opened in New York City. Its first public performance included Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

Vic's Labor Day labor of love to bring us the news
8:41am CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton suffered another coughing fit on the campaign trail, immediately after she took the stage during a rally in Cleveland.… After pausing for several seconds and reaching for some sort of medication she struggled through another sentence as her running mate Tim Kaine stood up and sat down awkwardly. Later it appeared that Kaine brought her some paper towels.…
An aide also stood up to give her something to assist her struggle with her cough.…

Like she isn't hard enough to listen to, without the hacking!
8:27pm CDT Mon 2016 Sep 5 :MW
1

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Hot Mic – Reuters Intentionally Cuts Camera Feed During Positive Bishop Jackson Remarks To Trump in Detroit…

1:23pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

1950s - less with us

Fred Hellerman, the last surviving member of the influential Fifties folk group the Weavers, died Thursday at his home in Weston, Connecticut. He was 89.… Hellerman, along with the Weavers' Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger, helped spark the folk revolution of the 1960s thanks to their renditions of standards like "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," Woody Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" and Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene." …

1:13am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW
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Spiritual Matters

Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa of Calcutta a Saint on Sunday morning…

“Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy,” the Pope said in his homily before the more than 100,000 people overflowing Saint Peter’s Square, “making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded.”…

1:34pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

It's All in Your Mind

Brain

According to Neurologist Richard Saul who has written a book called “ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder”, the amount of people who are suffering from Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder is zero.…

I was too distracted to finish the article.
1:28pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

Animal Culture

Collection of pics of critters at work, some for humans, others not.
1:32pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

What Th'...?

Egyptian member of parliament Elhamy Agina has encouraged women to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) to “reduce their sexual desires” to match that of Egypt’s “sexually weak” men, Parlmany reported.…

Not sure if that's a denigration of women, a sarcastic slap at Egyptian men, or what.
1:15am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Migrants near Calais have developed a new technique for stowing away on trucks bound for Britain: they throw large objects at cars on the highway, causing major accidents. Then, when gridlock results, they sneak into the back of trucks heading for the Channel Tunnel.

In other news, the latest polls predict that AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) will make huge gains in tomorrow’s state elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.…

News summaries with links
12:17pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW
Nightmouse

Feds refuse to investigate Muslim Minnesota House candidate’s immigration fraud, marriage to brother…
CDC Giving Itself Unconstitutional Powers To Round Up And Detain Citizens En Masse Anytime, Anywhere…
Clinton Told FBI She Couldn’t Recall Key Details 26 Times…

News summaries with links
12:09pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 476 Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaimed himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. By this time the Romans had already lost the wheat fields in Northern Africa and were unable to pay the troops. Individual towns in Gaul and Briton were already forming their own little city/states for protection.

Vic's histories show everything old is new again.
10:04am CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary Faced

…here are the key findings that PROVE Hillary Clinton belongs in jail, not the Oval Office.…

2:02pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW
Trump, smiling

…Mr. Trump spoke briefly to those assembled at Bishop Jackson’s church. His remarks were respectful, honest, humble and uplifting.

See, I know this because I watched it.

Funny how your impression of Donald Trump changes when you actually take the time to hear what he says rather than simply listen to the “analysis” and “spin” burped out by the Enslaved Press.…

Analysis, links, video
1:44pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

…Mr. Trump danced with the celebrants and sounded, well, presidential, when he addressed the congregation. Referencing disparities in education, employment and public safety he said “I fully understand the African-American community has suffered from discrimination,” and promised to bring prosperity to lower-income Americans. What a concept.…

Links, and pics
1:42pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW

…I wish with all my might that Trump would have a chance. The cynic in me says it will never happen.…

Several news stories and videos.
1:39pm CDT Sun 2016 Sep 4 :MW
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Earth Shakes

OKLAHOMA COUNTY, Oklahoma -
Residents across the state were rocked awake Saturday morning after an earthquake struck in Central Oklahoma.

Around 7:00 a.m., a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook and several residents and along with our staff began going to social media in response.…

Got me up and out of bed, by golly! Sounded like a train in the driveway.
8:13am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW

Anthropology

A powerful controlled explosion designed to demolish a giant limestone boulder blocking the path of the road exposed the entrance to a giant limestone cave which had been sealed for over 200,000 years.… "Qesem Cave…"

"It's a very special cave," he said. "It reflects an unknown stage in the history of humanity. We don’t know which type of human lived here. We know that they acted differently than everyone else who lived in this area before them. They seem like a different type of human. They didn't just behave differently, but they also looked differently. If we aren't mistaken, they were more similar to us ( humans today), and not their forefathers the Homo erectus.…"

"This site is approximately 400,000 years old. If you look at what (the early humans) did here, on their hunting strategies, the way they made their tools and how they prepared their food, it points to one of the most important changes in the history of mankind.…

1:56pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

I just assumed that there was only seven seals…

And they are playing music on little squeeze bulb horns.…

Quoted out of context because, funny
11:18pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

American Thinker: What Women Voters Need To Know About Hillary Clinton And Huma Abedin…
Don Surber: Hillary’s Vulnerability Is Her Health, Not Her E-Mails…
The Jawa Report: Crooked Hillary Watched Benghazi Attack Live…

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1:59pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW

Government Workers Now Outnumber Manufacturing Workers by 9,932,000…
94,391,000 Not In Labor Force; Labor Force Participation Stuck at 62.8%…
Cow Fart Regulations Approved By California’s Legislature…

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1:51pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

In the Parisian suburb of Vincennes, a man attacked a nurse with a knife and then stabbed a policewoman in the neck before being shot dead by other police officers. The motive for the heinous crime is not known, and there is no information on whether the attacker was mentally ill, bullied in school, or radicalized online. The only thing we know for certain is that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto says that Donald Trump’s ideas on immigration are a “threat to the future of Mexico”…

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1:46pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW
Nightmouse

Georgetown prez: No apology, reparations for slavery ties…
Obama’s Race Gambit…
Islamists Set Their Sights on Georgia and the Tea Party…

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1:20pm CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1189 Richard "the Lionheart") was crowned King of England at Westminster. He actually spent very little of his life in England, some say as little as 6 months. He did not even speak English. All of the stuff you see on every Robin Hood movie is all myth, except that he was killed by a crossbow bolt, but not directly. He died from gangrene following the shitty surgery to remove the bolt.

Vic knows and lets you know the news.
9:18am CDT Sat 2016 Sep 3 :MW
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Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Melania Trump

…The Daily Mail posted an article about Melania Trump’s racy photoshoots, visa issues, and posited her scantily clad photo spreads might have a bearing on the upcoming November election.

In response, Melania Trump filed a hefty $150 million defamation suit against The Daily Mail and threatened suit against Maryland-based blog, Tarply for allegedly suggesting she was once employed by an escort service. …

Thursday evening, The Daily Mail removed and retracted the article. Further, they apologized for any misinterpretation that led readers to believe Mrs. Trump was, “as stating or suggesting that Mrs. Trump worked as an ‘escort’ or in the ‘sex business,’ that she had a ‘composite or presentation card for the sex business,’ or that either of the modeling agencies referenced in the article were engaged in these businesses.”…

Remarkable what a $1.5-mil lawsuit threat will accomplish!
11:45am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW

Big Whoops Cascade

…could be charged with using weapons while intoxicated… while at the dentist.… getting a dental procedure done… told police he heard his phone ringing and went to answer it but accidentally grabbed his weapon and shot himself.…

But did he still see the dentist?
10:10am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW

Justice?

…poor Lyft driver who was verbally assaulted by this moron recently while giving her a ride home… did get fired for a few days, but they hired him back after seeing the abuse inflicted on him by this self appointed SJW…

I had seen the video. Good to see some follow-up.
8:07pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW

Nature vs Transport

Lightning

CATOOSA, Okla. – An Oklahoma driver was shaken up after lightning struck their car… driver was able to maintain control, but was quite shaken up. … driver immediately called for an ambulance. … When fire crews arrived, they noticed smoke coming from beneath the vehicle’s hood. That is when the 2016 Toyota Prius Hybrid caught fire…

11:34am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
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extraterrestrial

UFO

Ars was among the first news outlets to report on discussions among astronomers about observations of an intriguing "signal" that may have originated from a distant, Sun-like star. We cautioned readers that, because the signal was measured at 11Ghz, there was a "significant chance" it was of terrestrial origin, likely due to some military activity.

Well, it apparently was.…

11:59am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Bluebird posters weighing in on a hefty subject.
8:17pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Student housing ups the ante on amenities…
Jobs: Needed: Soft Skills…
Why Hillary Is Never Held Accountable for Her Lies…

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12:52pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
Nightmouse

Another Liberal Meme Promoting Socialism Ripped to Shreds…
California Passes Bill to Jail Reporters Who Film Undercover Footage at Planned Parenthood…
Alabama DMV: ‘Only Muslims can cover their hair for ID’s, Christians can not’…

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12:36pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Two police officers and at least one other person were wounded by a gunman in the self-proclaimed “autonomous” district of Christiania, a sort of vast hippie squat located just across the harbor from downtown Copenhagen. The suspected shooter was arrested, and is said to be a Bosnian with connections to the Islamic State.

In other news, the State Department’s warning to Americans not to travel to Turkey is reportedly based on reliable intelligence that there is an imminent likelihood of multiple large-scale terrorist attacks, especially in the Kurdish areas of southeast Turkey.…

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11:52am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW

It's not what you know but who you know…
Iran in the news shocking isn't it?…
They're back. They should have stayed on break…

Play "mystery headline news links" and win… knowledge
10:05am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1945 the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. This formally ended combat operations in the Pacific and WWII.

Vic rolls up the news and lights it up
9:49am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW

US Election 2016

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost several mobile telephones carrying e-mails from her private server during her time in office, according to newly-released FBI documents on the investigation into her mishandling of classified information.…

Could happen to anyone, right?
8:48pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
Haggard Hillary

Oh, My: Hillary Claims She Never Realized "(C)" Indicated (C)lassified Information; Claims She Thought (C) Only Indicated Alphabetical Order
CLAIMS COULD NOT REMEMBER SECURITY BRIEFINGS DUE TO CONCUSSION…

Ace gives this nothing less than three flaming skulls
8:47pm CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
Good reminder in an amusing variant on the Batman smacks Robin meme.
11:36am CDT Fri 2016 Sep 2 :MW
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WW2 - still with us

Dozens of brains and other body parts were discovered at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, Germany, when the building was undergoing renovations.

The remains of the bodies are reported to have belonged to victims of the Holocaust who were subjected to Nazi experiments, including children, the mentally ill, and the physically disabled, the Max Planck Institute said according to a report by Israel’s Army Radio.…

7:37pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Digital Threat

…When Congress comes back into session next Tuesday, it will only have a few short weeks to accomplish one of the most important tasks before it: ensuring that control of the internet does not fall into the hands of those who would actively censor it to the detriment of free speech and American interests.…

6:37pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Wednesday on HLN, in a reair of a broadcast of an interview with Steve Eckel, a retired New Jersey police officer who saved a baby from a hot car with a sledge hammer, the network blurred out his T-shirt, which said “2016 Trump.”…

6:32pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

…I have a chapter on that lie in my new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!, It was perfectly obvious that Trump was not mimicking any disability that Serge has, but I didn’t have the smoking gun to prove that the media were lying and knew they were lying. Now we have it.…

His hand-waving was not unique to that instance.
6:23pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Bad Parents

Police in Oklahoma say that at least five people have been arrested in association with sexual crimes against children. Fox 23 News reports that among those people arrested, four mothers were taken into police custody.… Authorities say that three of the four mothers were aware of the sexual abuse… one of the women… allegedly joined in…

Ages of the children not given.
6:27pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

The New York Post reported Wednesday that New York City’s child services have opened an investigation into former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner.…

Citing Mediaite. As Zip says, good.
6:08pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
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Art of

I wanted to try cleaning an LP with wood glue. It made for quite an improvement - and I've read that multiple cleanings continue to clean up the snaps crackles and pops.…

Not something I would have thought of offhand, but it works
6:06pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Feeding Ourselves

Banana

…From bananas to eggplant, here are some of the foods that looked totally different before humans first started growing them for food.…

5:55pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Healing Ourselves

Tulsa …Lindley was at work operating a saw, and, in an instant, his hand was severed at the wrist.

"Six surgeons and 14 hours - they had it back on and I was home in six days," he said.

The scarring's beginning to fade, but the damage was severe; the wrist had to be re-built, there were skin grafts and all blood vessels and nerves had to be re-attached.

But all the work is paying off.

…Slowly re-opening the pathways from his brain to his hand, and it is working. Rhinehart said the progress is miraculous.

…What he's working hardest at is holding a drumstick. Lindley was a drummer with lots of bands over the years. He loved it, and his goal is to play again…

6:30pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

People Live

When Ruby and Rosie Formosa were born joined at the abdomen and sharing part of an intestine, their parents were told the conjoined twins had a 25 per cent chance of survival.

Now, four years after an emergency operation to separate them saved their lives, they are preparing to go to school for the first time.…

5:58pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
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Cartoons Count

Spider-Man

Former Muslim and Muhammad cartoon art contest winner Bosch Fawstin spoke at the AFA conference I spoke at last weekend.

Listen to his powerful presentation. He discusses something few know about: how mainstream, comic books, in particular Marvel and DC Comics, have become propaganda tools for Islam.…

5:59pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

America the Beautiful

US Flag

…Boys and girls at Big Rapids Middle School gathered around the flag pole on Monday – the first day of the new school year.

A trumpeter played Reveille as they raised a crisp, new American flag. And then, a huge crowd of students and teachers began reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

“Overwhelming,” is how Principal Mitch Cummings described the patriotic moment.

Video of the ceremony was uploaded to social media -- and it spread across the fruited plain faster than Paul Revere on a midnight ride.…

6:16pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Breitbart is Here

90 Miles From Tyranny: Mommie Dearest – Hillary Clinton, the Joan Crawford Of Presidents?…
The Lonely Conservative: Clinton Now As Unpopular As Trump…
Megan McArdle: Why Obamacare Can’t Be What Its Supporters Want…

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7:47pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

IRS Failed to Notify Nearly 1.1 Million Identity Theft Victims…
Obama's former doctor: Clinton should have neurological exam…
The new art of war: How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict…

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7:43pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

In response to the wave of Islamic terror attacks that hit France over the summer, the French government has doubled the amount that will be spent on security for schools in the Paris region. French schools in particular have been targeted by the Islamic State in its propaganda materials.

In other news, officials in the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean have complained that they will need more government help coping with the recent resurgence of migration from Turkey.…

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7:33pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

British Airways to resume direct flights to Iran…
Kim Jong-un executes education minister by firing squad for not SITTING properly during a meeting…
'Life-threatening' Hurricane Hermine aims at Florida…

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7:28pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
Nightmouse

Hillary Has to Answer These 25 Questions Under Oath By Sept. 29…
Cafe Owner Wins Appeal After Neighbor Claimed ‘Smell of Bacon Offends Muslims’…
New Britain: 1 in 20 Adults Have Reading Level of a 5-Yr-Old…

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7:12pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Michelle Malkin: Colorado’s Anti-Fracking Crackup…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hate Group SPLC Labels “White Lives Matter” A Hate Group…
This Ain’t Hell: National Vietnam Veterans Foundation Closes Doors…

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6:35pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

Because having Hillary win is more important…
He could care less about American troops and their welfare…
Hello, My Name Is and I'm A (fill in blank)…

Headlines which make you think you're coming in at the middle of a conversation lead to real news
5:31pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1939 Adolf Hitler began the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. The order was actually signed on Oct 1939, but was back-dated to September 1 when they actually began the program. The program ran officially from September 1939 to August 1941, during which a recorded 70,273 people were killed at various extermination centers located at psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria, along with those in occupied Poland.…

Vic kicks the month off by pushing the news down the stairs
7:56am CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW

US Election 2016

Mexico Flag

…“We had a very substantive, direct, and constructive exchange of ideas over quite a period of time. I was straightforward in presenting my views of the impacts of current trade and immigration policies on the United States,” Trump stated at the beginning of the press conference with Mexico’s president. “We want to make sure the people of the United States are very well protected. You equally expressed your feelings and your love for Mexico.”

Trump said the two countries are “united by our support of democracy” and praised the contribution from Mexican-Americans in the United States. “They are amazing people.”…

6:21pm CDT Thu 2016 Sep 1 :MW