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

 
You’re the Next Charlie Gard if Government Gets to Decide Whether Your Quality of Life is Good Enough ~ When we forget that we’re all made in God’s image, every life is expendable ~

Being created in the Imago Dei endows every person with dignity—a dignity that is not derived from the majority’s opinion (or a government definition) about the quality of their life or their contribution to society.
 
In the absence of this belief, every decision about the allocation of healthcare—and indeed about any area of life—becomes an occasion for the young and strong to impose their will on the old and weak.

 
My Hometown is Gone – the Islamization of a Small American Town ~ The Hijrah (jihad by emigration) is progressing nicely in Utica, NY. Scary stuff.
 
Europe is doomed ~ The great exodus: As tens of thousands of migrants make their way across the Mediterranean while the EU tears itself apart over the issue ~

Before Britain helped to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi, he said that without a prosperous Libya, the migration of Africans to Europe would be uncontrollable. Today, he seems to have been proved right.
 
After his killing in 2011, Libya’s oil-rich economy collapsed, to be replaced by a lucrative people-smuggling trade which sends fleets of boats across the Mediterranean carrying illegal migrants who have paid sky-high fares for the ‘privilege’.
 
So far this year, 85,000 have sailed from Libyan ports to Italy, with 12,000 arriving in the past week.

The Drug-Fueled Homosexual Scandal Allegations at the Holy Office ~ Shocking? Only if you haven’t been paying attention ~

Whatever the exact truth behind the lurid and disturbing story, it has further exposed such gravely sinful behavior taking place in the Vatican that one senior member of the curia says has “never been worse.”

 
Joe Donnelly Increased Investment in Family Business After Shift to Mexican Labor ~ Indiana Democrat, an outsourcing critic, has seen greater earnings in recent years ~ Another shameless, fork-tongued progressive ~

Indiana senator Joe Donnelly (D.) didn’t make substantial investments in his family’s ink business until after it moved part of its manufacturing into Mexico, and his profits have steadily increased in the years since, according to financial disclosure forms.
 
Donnelly’s investment in the family company, Stewart Superior Corp., was highlighted on Thursday by the Associated Press, which pointed out the senator’s past criticism of companies that outsource manufacturing to Mexico. Donnelly has said that outsourcing is “a fancy term for ‘someone in Indiana has just lost their job,'” and is currently sponsoring the “End Outsourcing Act.”

 
THE $Trillion Windmill Industry Is The Greatest Scam Of Our Age ~ Thanks to global warming madness, Australia is learning a very painful economic lesson. The rest of the world should be paying attention ~

In South Australia, the wind farms have failed causing huge blackouts.
 
In Victoria, electricity prices have shot up by around 20 per cent from January, thanks to the closure of the “dirty” coal-fired Hazelwood plant.
 
Business is panicking with jobs decimated, business confidence shattered, investment stifled.

 
Churches In Egypt Halt All Activities For Remainder Of July Amid Terror Threat ~ Seems there’s simply no coexisting with the Religion-of-Peace in Egypt ~

Egyptian churches announced Thursday they will suspend all church activities for the remainder of July per warnings of looming terrorist attacks.
The Evangelical, Coptic Orthodox, and Catholic churches agreed to halt services, conferences, and any church trips to protect their congregations after Egyptian security forces warned them of impending Islamic terrorist attacks, according to a Friday report from Egyptian Streets.

 
Liberals freak out at Twitter photo of pastors praying for Trump at White House ~ Angry atheists becoming unglued. Why the virulent intolerance? ~

“The anti-religion crowd has now cleared the bar from not wanting prayer in schools all the way down to, “’we don’t want public officials praying or being prayed for at all,’” observed Andrea Ruth at RedState.

Drifter boat, a Maine high school project, washes up in Scotland ~ Impressive! Kennebunk High School students launched the 4 ft. “Little Boat That Could” last December ~

The boat landed on an island in Scotland last week, exactly 168 days and 12 hours after it was launched by students at Kennebunk High School’s Alternative Education program.

 
Union files grievance over ‘goat crews’ clearing brush on university campus ~ You can’t make this stuff up!

Last year Western Michigan University contracted with a company called Munchers on Hooves to bring a group of goats on campus to clear half an acre of brush. The trial was such a success that this year the goats are back, this time to clear 15 acres filled with poison ivy. But the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has filed a grievance against the school, claiming the “goat crews” are unauthorized workers.

 
Trump’s 1st Qtr. Salary to Go to Fix Antietam Battlefield ~ Pretty sure CNN missed this story ~

The Interior Department announced that it will be using the $78,333 given to them by President Trump to revitalize an important Civil War landmark, according to the Washington Times […]
 
(Interior Secretary Ryan) Zinke said he would be using the funds to renovate Maryland’s Antietam National Battlefield, a few miles outside Harper’s Ferry, W.V.
 
Antietam, known in the South as the Battle of Sharpsburg, took place in September 1862 and was the bloodiest single day in the entire war.