Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Blaming the Crusades for Jihad ~ New book from former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, refutes the Islamist version of history. The truth is, “(b)laming the Crusades is a way of denying the Islamic supremacist ideology that has driven the conflict from the beginning.”
 

Endgame: 61% of Americans, including near-majority of Democrats, don’t think Redskins should change their name ~ Never fear, it’s just a matter of time before the ruling elite, assisted by msm agit-prop, convince the sheeple that the nick-name “Redskins” is “racist-sexist-bigoted-homophobic” and has to go.
 
Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starting To Happen All Over The Globe ~ Iceland, Italy, Poland, New Zealand…
Did you ever stop to think about who’s going to pay for Obamacare? Not to mention the National Debt – which is now almost 17 trillion?

What does all of this mean for us?
 
It means that the governments of the world are eyeing our money as part of the solution to any future failures of major banks.

 
A Useless Obama Addresses the Useless United Nations ~ at the annual Big Apple Circus ~

In so many ways, the UN either does not solve problems or is an integral part of them […]
 
What we know about the United Nations is that it should be told to leave the U.S. and its headquarters turned into condominiums. We are surely not getting any value for the money we have pumped into the UN.

 
POTUS knows it’s all a farce ~
Obama lies to UN human rights official about not having smoked in six years ~ The president struggles with the truth? Shocking, I know.
 
Ted Cruz isn’t abnormal; Washington is ~ Far from being “extremist,” “anarchist” and “radical,” Ted Cruz’s position against the “Affordable Care Act” is one that most Americans actually agree with. Some enlightening facts from Star Parker ~

The 2010 health care reform commonly called “ObamaCare,” which passed without a single Republican vote, has only gotten more unpopular. A USA Today/Pew Research Center poll this week shows 53 percent of Americans disprove of the new law and 42 percent approve. Forty-one percent strongly disapprove and 26 percent strongly approve.

The NYT’s differing take on two speeches: Wendy Davis vs. Ted Cruz ~ More evidence of the Regular American~Ruling Class disconnect; the parallel universe of the New York Times.
 
SEIU workers strike over Obamacare job cuts ~

Union members losing jobs and having their hours cut because of the socialistic health care program they supported? 😯 Unlike all the Americans who opposed Obamacare, they deserve it.

 
But what do want to bet they’ll still find a way to blame those rascally Republicans?

Unstoppable: Despite social media setbacks, Kirk Cameron’s documentary makes a viral splash ~ Cameron’s new film “Unstoppable,” dealing with the age-old dilemma of why God allows evil to exist, opened on September 24th. A second showing is scheduled for this Thursday, October 3rd.