Some Follow-Up, And Links For Bastille Day

Last November, I made a "Things I Don't Believe" post about the rumor that Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966, and was replaced by a look-alike.  I recently found a YouTube video which makes some of the same points that I made in my post, but focuses on Paul's relationships, both before and after the purported crash.  Would his father James, his brother Mike (known as Mike McGear), his then-girlfriend Jane Asher, and the other three Beatles have continued, with an impostor, all the respective relationships that they originally had with Paul?  Watch below or here.

In France, today is la Fête nationale, which commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, and is known in English-speaking countries as Bastille Day.  In keeping with the date, here are 14 things going on:

From ABC News, President Trump and the First Lady attend a military parade celebrating Bastille Day.

From The Guardian, President Macron "pulls out all the stops".

From Breitbart's National Security, ISIS reportedly has a new caliph.

From The Daily Caller, earth to a certain Airbnb host:  racial discrimination is still illegal.

From Turkish Minute, in the first half of this year, 3,206 Turkish nationals have sought asylum in Germany.

From Southeast Energy News, Dominion Energy seeks "flexible compliance" for any carbon regulation scheme put into place by the state of Virginia.

From the Assyrian National News Agency, at look at the three genocides which took place under the Ottoman Empire.

From LifeZette, there appears to be a double standard regarding dissidents in Russia and China.

From Russia Today, terrorists kill two Israeli policemen near the Temple Mount.  (via the Geller Report and Jihad Watch)

From The Telegraph, an American specialist will be allowed to examine Charlie Gard.  (via The Blaze)

From the Los Angeles Times,  a look at "Star Wars Land".

From the Express, a British supermarket decides to sell only British meat.  (via WestMonster)

From Fox News, the FBI investigation of Jane O'Meara Sanders (wife of Bernie) appears to track information in Hillary Clinton's emails.

And from USA Today, and the "grain of salt" department, a man was locked in an ATM.

Some Stuff

Some stuff to get stuffed on:

Christian pastors lay their hands on President Trump, thus befuddling CNN anchor.

Bienvenue, Monsieur et Madame Trump.

The Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. has some leftwing connections.

House bans the regulation of hearing devices.

You can trust a quantum computer.

The Remainers are determined to be pains you know where.

The Sint Maarten airport beach produces a Darwin Award nominee.

Senator McConnell (R-KY) rolls out the health care bill.

The next Super Bowl will not include Britney Spears.

Soundcloud might not make it through the year.

HuffPost hits the road.

Is the founder of AMANA a Hamas member or not?

China establishes their first overseas military base in Djibouti.

UCLA apparently doesn't like free speech.

How bad is Oregon's new abortion law?  This bad.

British cops search a Muslim man for wearing too many clothes.

Larry Elders wrote a (so far unanswered) letter to Representative Waters (D-Cal).

And last but not least..........rats!

Huge Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica

If you're sailing in the southern ocean, you might want to watch out for a very large iceberg, which just calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica.  It's been described as being the size of Delaware, and weighing a trillion tons.  This means, of course, that if it gets near, it will be hard to miss.

Read more at The Verge, News(dot)com(dot)au, The Telegraph, ABC News (where "A" stands for "Australia") and the New York Post, who cite Reuters as their source.

Links For 7/11

This is for the date, not the convenience store.  Should I provide seven or eleven....or both?   Let's see what I can come up with:

From CNS News, a noted musician writes about Auschwitz.  (I have visited the camp myself.)

From The Daily Caller, move over Elizabeth Warren, here's the next fake Indian.

From ABC News, who's the Russian lawyer that Trump Jr. has been talking to?

From Townhall, read Trump Jr.'s emails for yourself.  (What about Hillary's emails?  Oh, never mind!)

From HealthZette, here's more of what policemen have to deal with.

From Variety, here's more of what policemen have to deal with.

From Philly(dot)com, does anyone want to buy an airfield?

From the Express, relations between Norway and the E.U. are getting crabby.

From The Federalist, conservative columnist George Will sounds off on Twitter, collusion, healthcare and baseball.

From the Washington Examiner, Energy Secretary Rick Perry goes to Mexico.

From FrontpageMag, a look at Linda Sarsour.

From The Washington Times, an American soldier is arrested after pledging loyalty to ISIS.

From Breitbart Jerusalem, over 120,000 children attend summer camps run by Hamas and similar groups.

From Reuters, ten years of Hamas rule has not been kind to Gaza.

From the Daily Mail, a British inspector challenges a court ruling that permits gender segregation.

From SFGate, BART officials are reluctant to release information on crime.  (via Fox News)

From ZeroHedge, in Venezuela, it's the real Mad Max.

And from the New York Post, a writer claims that Trump's rival's daughter ripped off his idea.

I believe that I've found seven and eleven, which totals eighteen stories in all.

A Sasquatch's Dozen

Twelve things going on out there:

In Chechnya, gays are reportedly executed without trial.

Megyn Kelly's rating keep going down.

Tomi Lahren addresses the snowflakes.

The next time you have a complaint about police, first take a look at what they have to deal with.

Migrants are making it harder to be a Lesbian (and I'm not talking about female homosexuals).

In the Netherlands, Muslim children are compensated for missing a photo session.

President Trump's critics display their ignorance of history.

Beware the Bechdel test.

Two million more Americans have lost their health insurance this year.  Wasn't Obamacare supposed to prevent that sort of thing?  (intermediate source)

Charlie Gard's parents have been given 48 hours to produce new evidence about experimental treatments for his condition.  (intermediate source)

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson goes to the Middle East.

And to finish, the next status symbol might be, of all things, sleep.

More Things I Have Learned

This is another list of things I've run across on sites such as Twitter, or have read elsewhere.  As with my first post of this kind, these could be called "other people's musings".  For some of these, I have tried to provide links to some background information.

According to some people:

In a Tweet, Ann Coulter said something like this:  If President Trump's pause on immigration from six Muslim countries is a possible recruiting tool for terrorists, couldn't this also be true of the DNC choosing against electing a Muslim, Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), as their chairperson?

There is now a faction of the left which views violence for reasons they agree with as speech, and speech which they don't agree with as violence.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.  She didn't trash the bus.  Big difference.  Her friends boycotted the Montgomery buses.  They didn't block traffic.  Again, big difference.

Testing

Just testing out the Blogger photo upload and display functions.  Here are some things I once used to operate a computer.  In those days, the computer, which I never saw, took up an entire room.  I loaded a bunch of these things into a reader, located in another room, and got a printout as a result.

Operating systems like Windows were beyond my imagination back then.

Sunday Links

As the week begins, I must resume relaying things going on out there.

The New York Post slams "Burgermeister de Blasio".

From Breitbart London, Albanians migrate to Bulgaria in hopes of migrating further.

From FaithZette, the Pope criticizes the G-20 while facing another sex scandal.

From the Evening Standard, British teenagers endure a chemical attack.

From the Sunday Express, German industry is willing to lose UK trade to protect the E.U.

From The Daily Caller, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin defends his boss's cooperation with Russia, while Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) opposes it.

From BBC News, the Church of England will vote on whether to hold special services for transgender people.

From The Times Of Israel, Radiohead will play in Tel Aviv, whether protesters like it or not.

From Townhall, a ceasefire starts in southwest Syria.

From The Corner at National Review, the U.K. government might be "messing up Brexit".  (The article contains a large quote from an article in The Financial Times, but you'll have to subscribe to read it.)

From AhlulBayt News Agency, the Imam Ali Holy Shrine helps pilgrims to beat the heat.

From The Guardian, Iraq claims victory in Mosul.  (via HotAir)

From One India, Kashmir faces a four-pronged fight.

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a Muslim preacher tells Christians to stop passing out Bibles.

Gatestone Institute reminds us that leaving Islam can be hazardous to your health.

From the Daily Mail, her Majesty picks a Ghanaian-born man to be her equerry.

From Philly(dot)com, the G-20 rioters keep rioting.

And from Variety, the movie Spider-Man: Homecoming is doing very well.

Changes Afoot?

Winston Churchill once described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".  In a similar vein, I seem to have gotten into a predicament wrapped in a dilemma inside a quandary.  (In a small quandary, I also had to figure out how to spell "quandary".)  If you've gone to any of my posts which contain one or more embedded pictures, you might see, instead of the picture(s), a notice from Photobucket to "please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting".  If you want to see the picture, you need to right click on the notice, and select "open link in new tab", which will take you to the Photobucket page which hosts the picture.

Seven For 7/7

Because it's the seventh day of the seventh month, here are seven things in the news:

Well, what do you know.  It looks like there really has been some collusion between Presidents Trump and Putin.

Despite media expectations, these 11 Trump employees still haven't been fired.

Making threats around a Senator's office doesn't pay.

Movie executives offer a donation to replace the Ten Commandments monument in Little Rock, Arkansas.

A House Democrat proposes legislation to give green cards to illegal immigrants who worked in the recovery after 9/11.

Brazilian protesters block a road to their northern ports.

And last but not least, happy 77th birthday to Ringo Starr.