Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Israel: EU drone spying on Jewish towns crashes near Mt. Hevron ~ It’s not bad enough that the UN is constantly condemning the Israelis, now the EU is spying on Judea and Samaria ~
Israel is threatened by the same jihad force that is now causing havoc in Europe, and the European Union is spying on…Israeli settlements.
GOP congressman takes down colleague’s sponsored ‘art’ depicting police as pigs ~ Thank-you Duncan Hunter!
A Republican congressman took matters into his own hands Friday and personally removed a painting depicting police officers as pigs that a colleague had allowed to be displayed at the U.S. Capitol complex.
“I was angry,” Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told FoxNews.com. “I’ve seen the press [reporting] on this for about a week or so.”[…]
Hunter said he walked over to the artwork Friday morning with a few colleagues and unscrewed it. He then delivered it to the office of Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo., the congressman whose office had allowed the piece to be displayed. The painting was done by a high school student and had won Clay’s annual Congressional Art competition in May […]
As for whether the painting will stay down, Hunter said: “Lacy can put it back up, I guess, if he wants to … but I’m allowed to take it down.”[…]
More than 27,000 law enforcement professionals had been protesting the display of what they called a “reprehensible, repugnant and repulsive” painting in the hallway of the Capitol.
President Obama Brickhouse I’ve Even Got My Own Wall ~ The Hypocrite-in-Chief opens the floodgates for tens of thousands of illegals – many of them thugs – and commutes the sentences of hundreds of felons, but when it comes to his elitist butt, it’s build a wall!
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2016 ~ Our religious freedoms may be threatened here in the U.S., but merely being a professing Christian in many other countries is grounds for a prison sentence – or worse ~
In Nigeria, Muslim ethnic Fulanis looked less like nomadic herdsmen and more like well-armed, well-funded jihadist militants. Close Muslim relatives and Islamist village mobs attacked their Christian kin in Uganda, while Somalia’s Al Shabaab rebels intensified their campaign to drive Christians from northern Kenya. At the same time, courts in Turkey and Pakistan made history by finally providing some measure of justice in cases of slain Christian martyrs.
16 Most Ridiculously PC Moments on College Campuses in 2016 ~ All new heights of insanity; a year of trigger warnings, safe spaces, and microaggresions. Here’s number 6 ~
Privilege-checking became problematic. You know how social-justice warriors are always telling you to “check your privilege” to see how problematic you are? Well, according to an op-ed by a student at the University of California–Berkeley, privilege-checking is also problematic, because it just makes privileged people feel lucky. (What the hell we are supposed to do to please these people is not clear.)
When you’re the only one who shows up to church (At an Episcopal church in Portland, ME) ~ So sad. But because so many of the mainline protestant congregations have embraced moral relativity and “inclusiveness” they’re no longer the “salt and light” they’re called to be and have become mostly irrelevant ~
Such a poor turnout for an evening service isn’t surprising given the national trends. Episcopal churches, like those of other mainline Protestant denominations, are far emptier than they used to be. The Episcopal Church in the United States says average Sunday worship attendance at its churches declined 26 percent between 2005 and 2015.
Italy: Muslim sets fire to church Nativity scene ~ No wonder that priest in Cremona didn’t want to “trigger” the barbarians. Isn’t “Coexistence” a beautiful thing?
Mr. Obama’s Parting Gift to Planned Parenthood ~ As public pressure to defund Planned Parenthood has been building across the country, several states redirected their Title X (family planning program) funds earmarked for that agency to other organizations that offer health care services to uninsured and low-income Americans. In retaliation, the spiteful president used his poison pen again ~
(T)he Obama administration has invented and adopted a Department of Health and Human Services rule—not a law, mind you—that in effect prohibits states from blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X family planning services grant money.
Gun-Controlled Chicago Ends 2016 with Nearly 800 Homicides for the Year ~ The new murder capital of America, Obama’s adopted hometown ~
There were 4,385 shootings — fatal and non-fatal combined — in gun-controlled Chicago during 2016. That is an increase of nearly 1,500 shootings over the 2,900 Time magazine reported for 2015.
2016 was marred by shooting after shooting in Chicago. In fact, by early September, the egregious violence in the city was so high that ABC News reported “nearly 12” people had been shot every day in the city from January 1 to the end of August.
This is almost exclusively black-on-black violence. Why don’t these #BlackLivesMatter?
