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

 
Americans Are Losing Confidence In The Supreme Court ~ Ya think? ~

Americans increasingly view the Supreme Court not as a revered body of judges considering questions of law, but as ideologues engaged at the front lines of America’s culture wars.

Another casualty of progressivism.

 
Mexican bishop and his clergy: We will go to jail rather than bless gay ‘marriages’ ~ Don’t doubt that it will come to that, both there and here (It already happened in Kentucky to Kim Davis ) ~

“They can’t require an institution like this Church to go against its principles,” the archdiocesan clergy are quoted as saying in various local and national news reports. “Let the Supreme Court send the bishops and the priests to jail, whomever they want, but the Church cannot go against the law of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

 
Holocaust escape tunnel found: Prisoners dug with spoons to escape Nazis ~ A small but inspiring victory over evil. Sometimes even man’s inhumanity to man can’t destroy the will to survive ~

One of the people involved in the discovery was archeologist Jon Seligman, of the Israel Antiquities Authority. “As an Israeli whose family originated in Lithuania, I was reduced to tears on the discovery of the escape tunnel at Ponar,” he said in a statement. “This discovery is a heartwarming witness to the victory of hope over desperation.”

 
Models Miss Another Factor Impacting Climate ~ Most of the climate alarmists are basing their doom and gloom predictions on “modeling” – which is contingent on accurate data input. It’s guesswork at best, wildly subject to interpretation, especially when everything isn’t factored in ~

To quote the lead author of (a new) study, Michael Griffiths, Ph.D. from William Paterson University in the United States, “Until we can model this lower-frequency behavior in the tropical Pacific, one can only speculate on how the warming will play out over the next few decades.”

 
Elite NYC school teaching kindergartners about ‘white privilege’ ~

An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#HomeSchool
 
U.S. military goes transgender ~ The final(?) nail in the coffin of what was once the finest fighting force in the world. Thank you Leftists for imposing your twisted ideology on our heroes ~

The Pentagon conducted no surveys to gauge the opinions of the rank-and-file force on this politically sensitive issue. Instead, the unnamed defense official said that Carter “determined . . . that this was medical treatment and a medical issue and you’re not going to defer to the force as to whether or not we’re going to provide treatment.”

Military Times comments ran from outraged to heart-breaking to stunned. Some samples:

M Roberto DeLeon: “Utter madness. Allowing these severely mentailly ill people to serve is perposterous. This is why you don’t vote for liberals.”
 
Ryan Arthur: “I can’t get the treatment or approval I need for my back injury I suffered on my 10th deployment but it’s ok to absorb the costs of HRT and SRS for Transgender members? Where is the irony in that?”
 
Michael J. West: “So we can afford to pay for a sex change operation… But they won’t pay for my machine gunners to have working weapons? I cant wait for Russia to take over.“

 
Grandmother Scares Off Three Home Invaders With Handgun ~ The media only likes to trumpet stories those that help foster their gun control agenda; never ones that feature good guys with guns stopping bad guys ~

The woman credited her handgun for saving her life. “I think it’s wonderful,” she told the news station of her gun. “I think it’s the only thing that saved me. It was my Godsend. I don’t know what I would’ve done without it.

 
Anti-wall Mark Zuckerberg building a yuge ‘bridge’ around his Hawaii house ~ Limousine Liberal poster-child-of-the-month.