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

 
Donald Trump’s Boffo Speech to Congress ~ Politically and theatrically brilliant. In case you missed it, Bruce Thornton recaps the president’s excellent address to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Optics for the Dems were just abysmal ~

After a campaign and first month in office filled with caustic tweets, petty squabbles, heated rhetoric, and seeming disarray, Trump spoke in the disciplined, lofty, aspirational, conciliatory tone we expect of presidents. But the Democrats mostly sat on their hands, even when Trump promised to create jobs and help curb the slaughter in blighted black neighborhoods, boons for the Democrats’ constituents…

 
Leftists are so thoroughly disconcerted over Trump’s speech they’ve taken to frantically slinging mud at a man with more integrity than the entire Democrat wing of Congress ~ Democrats Want AG Sessions To Resign. Here Are 5 Things Obama AG Eric Holder Never Resigned Over

 
Greenpeace Claims Immunity from Lawsuits Because Its Claims Are ‘Hyperbole’ ~ The environmental activist group has been pushing for legal action against ExxonMobil, alleging the company “knew” about climate change in the 1970s and 1980s. Apparently they thought that fact distortion was a legitimate legal strategy. 😯 Now it seems…

Greenpeace is admitting that it relies on “non-verifiable statements of subjective opinion,” and “because its claims are not meant to be factual, the group believes it cannot be held legally responsible for what it says.”

A lesson for Planned Parenthood’s pin-up girls ~ Michelle Malkin schools silly La-La Land celebs. Developing nations don’t want Westerners’ immorality imposed on them ~

Take off your glittering abortion pins and open your minds.

$249 ‘BabelFish’ Pilot earphones can translate foreign languages in real-time ~ How cool I want a set! (Although the “Babel” ability to communicate with anyone on the planet may definitely be another sign of the end times…)

 
Why are we permanently resettling refugees who say their real wish is to go HOME? ~ It’s all about the Big Refugee racket ~

• The resettlement contractors are paid by the head to drop off refugees who are essentially paying clients and they want to keep their little federally-funded fiefdoms going.
• The Libs want reliable Democrat voters (especially in red states!).
• The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) is working day and night to erase borders and dilute Christian nations with Muslim migrants.

Church World Service announced yesterday that it is launching anti-Trump campaign (to raise $$$) ~ Is your church past of the scam?

 
The Beastly Beauty of Disney’s ‘Gay Moment’ — And How We Should Respond ~

(I)t’s hard to make people happy by exposing gay activism’s ugliness. From both a strategic and biblical perspective we’ll get much further by revealing the true beauty of the way of Jesus Christ […]
 
… we have to keep pointing back to the better way. We need to learn to paint the picture better, to show the truly beautiful way, the way of strong and lasting marriages that unite in godly love to build the next generation.

 
How progressive: ship dead trees 5,000km and burn them (use £450m for kindling) ~ Jo Nova (Australian science author/speaker/former TV host) highlights the goofy lengths the climate alarmists will go to to prop up their phony carbon crisis ~

They claim to reduce greenhouse gases,
From mulched trees as burnt bio masses,
By importing wood pellets,
The renewable zealots,
Are behaving like right silly asses.

~ Ruairi

Here’s more of the same from Watts Up with That ~ A Trifecta of Green Lunacy: The law of unintended consequences kicks in
 
Barack Obama’s close confidante Valerie Jarrett has moved into his new DC home, which is now the nerve center for their plan to mastermind the insurgency against President Trump ~ Yeah, this isn’t too weird is it? ~

• Obama’s goal is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment, a family friend tells DailyMail.com
• Jarrett has moved into the 8,200-square-foot, $5.3-million Kaloroma mansion to work closely with the former president and Michelle Obama

 
New GOP Star Born When California Dems Forcibly Remove Vietnamese Senator for Criticizing Tom Hayden ~ Unbelievable – but such a clear illustration of the Stalinist tendencies of the Left ~

“It was in the interest of representing the residents of the 34th district, home to the largest community of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam, that I felt compelled to tell my colleagues what Sen. Hayden’s support of the communist regime meant to the Vietnamese-American community,” Nguyen wrote in (an op-ed for the Orange County Register) […]
 
“I am deeply disappointed with the majority party leadership’s actions because they didn’t just silence my voice, they silenced the voices of the more than 930,000 residents I represent. Their actions were not the result of some arcane Senate rule or the fact I didn’t follow protocol but because some senators did not like what I had to say.
 
“In Vietnam to this day, free speech does not exist and on Thursday, I caught a glimpse of what that must be like. The freedoms we enjoy in this country are worth defending and I am proud to have been a part of that fight. As an American, I am committed to continue to fight to protect first amendment rights for the residents of my district and for the residents of the great state of California.”

 
Euthanasia Advocate Changes Her Mind After Watching the “Euthanasia Deception” Documentary ~ Every life has value in God’s eye. The creators of this film, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, are combating the false ideology of “mercy killing”.
 
Here’s more good news on the assisted-suicide front ~ Droves of Canadian doctors opt out of euthanasia ~

At least 24 doctors in Ontario have asked to be removed from a list of physicians willing to participate in Canada’s Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) law, passed in June. Some 30 more have requested their names be put on hold.
 
Jeff Blackmer, vice president of the Canadian Medical Association, said some doctors initially think they are helping patients end their suffering but find the reality much different.
 
“We’re seeing doctors who go through one experience and it’s just overwhelming, it’s too difficult,” he said. “And those are the ones who say, ‘Take my name off the list. I can’t do it anymore.’”