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

 
Muslim Cab Drivers At Cleveland Airport Refuse To Drive Cabs With Advertisement For Gay Games ~ Uh-oh. This should be interesting; dueling grievance-peddlers with opposing world-views.
 
Vietnamese Community Rises up Against Democrat’s Attempt to Honor Vietnam ~ California Lefties jumped the shark on this one ~

A proposal to make the city of Irvine, CA and the Vietnamese city of Nha Trang “friendship cities” drew an explosive response from the Vietnamese community in and around Irvine […]
 
More than 180,000 Vietnamese live in Irvine and surrounding cities–the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam–and many of the immigrants are war refugees who fled the Communist country […]
 
According to the Voice of Orange County, Len Quoc Nguyen, a Garden Grove school board trustee, said to Agran, “Nothing could have galvanized the Vietnamese community more than what you did.” Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen, a child when he escaped Vietnam, said his mother and brother were held in a forced labor camp, and added he has “horrible memories.” County Supervisor Janet Nguyen said Nha Trang committed “blanket human rights violations ” and added, “Shame on you, Mr. Agran, for not thinking twice.”

 
Promise Broken rulings on The Obameter ~ A handy guide to Obama’s broken promises at the Tampa Bay Times. The list is currently six pages long and – unfortunately for the country – it’s growing at a steady clip.

 
Television Networks Ignore Case of Utah Mother Accused of Killing Seven Babies ~ This horrific story has barely received any coverage at all from the alphabet networks ~

ABC, CBS, and NBC’s morning newscasts on Monday all omitted the arrest of a Utah woman, after the bodies of seven newborn babies were discovered in her house on Saturday […]
 
All three Big Three morning shows devoted full segments to the latest on the Oscar Pistorius case.

Doesn’t infanticide count as homicide to these agenda-driven progressives anymore?!
 
GOP writes legislation to deny AG Holder his salary ~ Since the contemptible Attorney General thinks he can ignore Congressional investigations, why can’t we-the-people-he-works-for ignore his paychecks?

“The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials’ bad behavior,” (Rep Farenthold R-TX, the bill’s sponsor) said.

Would be great to see this get some traction. Yes, we do want to “go there!”

 
Children failing to use toy building blocks ‘due to iPad addictions’ ~ Is the latest technology interfering with childhood development, socialization, critical motor skills?
 

Texas church creates 17,000-square-foot Jesus visible by planes ~
A church in Grapevine, Texas, is getting into the Easter spirit this week by creating a giant chalk-portrait of Jesus Christ in their parking lot.