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

 
Big government butting in: British man ordered to remove butt-baring gnome ornaments ~ 😯 Authoritarian bureaucrats have nothing better to do? (Bear in mind, the gnome butt in question looks to be smaller than a baseball)

Lauren Perry, 77, was ordered to remove two cheeky ornaments from outside his Wistaston home because they were deemed a possible distraction to motorists, the Telegraph reported.

 
Unemployed dad with face tattoo rejects 45 job offers since going viral with desperate work plea ~ “Slacker generation.” Because apparently life should be consequence-free.

 
How to Keep Your Soul Intact While Investigating Planned Parenthood: An Interview With David Daleiden ~ John Zmirak spoke with the dauntless pro-life advocate this week ~

The question I most wanted to ask Daleiden was this: What was it like to put on a different identity, to burrow into the dark world of organ trafficking and abortion? How could he manage it, day in and day out, for more than a year? We’ve all seen TV movies about the harsh impact that undercover work can have on police. What sustained him in his journey through the darkness?
 
The answer almost staggered me. It told me why someone like him, not someone like me, was the person whom God called to do this crucial work. He said that he kept in the front of his mind that his work was an act of love. Not just for unborn children. But also for the people who worked at Planned Parenthood. They had found themselves in a horrible and diabolical place.

 
Unapologetic Mass Murderer Motivated by Darwin Lives in Comfort in Prison, While Victim Trauma Continues ~ You may remember Anders Behring Breivik as the man who murdered 77 young people in Norway exactly six years ago today. The media continues to refer to him as a ‘right-wing’ extremist despite the fact that he considers himself a “traditional neo-Nazi.” Oh, and he just loves Darwin ~

Breivik detailed in his document why he was an unapologetic champion of the Darwinian worldview. Breivik’s vision of “a perfect Europe” involved the strict application of Social Darwinism, opining that the application of “national Darwinism” should be at the core of our society. He does not believe that science should be left in private hands, but instead should be lavishly supported by the government.
 
Breivik also stressed that science trumps religion: “As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedence over Biblical teachings.” Breivik listed Darwin’s Origin of Species as one of the most “important” books that he has ever read.

 
Union boss: Hundreds of EPA employees’ jobs at risk ~ On the rare occasion that someone tries to shrink the federal leviathan, entitled leftists throw a fit ~

“EPA wants over 1,200 of us to leave, purportedly to save money going forward and claiming that they no longer need the positions occupied by staff that in some cases worked at EPA for over 30 years,” (American Federation of Government Employees Local 704 Michael Mikulka) said.

Gasp! “You mean we have to deal with reality?!”
 
Here’s another self-righteous federal employee who thinks he’s invaluable ~ Government Climate Scientist: Native Alaskans Are In Danger Because I Was Reassigned ~

(Joel Clement) claims that leaving his former position empty will “exacerbate the already significant threat to the health and the safety of certain Alaska Native communities,” and filed his complaint “because the Trump administration clearly retaliated against me for raising awareness of this danger.”

Boo-hoo. Maybe you could try the private sector for a while. You know, become a productive member of society?

 
“Queer Arabs” feel marginalized because Halifax gays voted to allow Zionists to march ~ This story’s from Nova Scotia – just had to include it on the basis of the headline alone 😀 Don’t they realize they’ve all marginalized themselves, simply by engaging in the game of identity politics?

The Predator in the Fashion Magazine: Teen Vogue Coaches Teenagers in Sodomy ~ Just when you think our culture can’t sink much lower. Teen readers should follow up this article with a visit to Joseph Sciambra’s site to discover the tragic physical and emotional consequences of anal sex.

 
Bill Nye Says Old People Must Die For Climate Science To Progress ~ For once, Nye is actually telling the truth; we “older” folks haven’t been brain-washed by today’s public indoctrination centers. We grew up when science was still based in reality. We have to go ~

Comedian Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that the climate change movement can only move forward once the older generation begins to die off [..]
 
“We’re just going to have to wait for those people to ‘age out,’ as they say,” Nye said, adding that “age out” is a euphemism for dying. “But it’ll happen, I guarantee you — that’ll happen.”

 
The Latest Absurd Manifestations of Transgenderism ~ All a 15 year-old high school boy has to do to win a track meet these days is say he’s a “she” ~

(L)iberals, if your daughters lose their track meets, or swim meets, or tennis tournaments, or golf tournaments, or whatever other sporting events to inherently stronger biological boys declaring themselves girls—and perhaps lose D-1 scholarships in the process—then suck it up and take one for the liberal team.
 
You’ve created this monster. And now you can live with it.

 
What’s going on in Jerusalem? Elder of Zion has regular up-dates on the ongoing Temple Mount violence ~ 07/21 Links Pt1: Temple Mount Crisis: It’s Not About the Metal Detectors; The Palestinian Mountain of HateArab Countries Condemn Israel for Closing Temple Mount, Failing to Mention Terrorist Attack that Prompted Closure ~

Two Israeli Border Police Officers were murdered and a third was wounded on Friday when three Palestinian terrorists opened fire at security forces near an entrance to the Temple Mount at the Lions Gate and then fled into the Mount complex. The Palestinian assailants, reportedly carrying two rifles and a pistol, were pursued by Israeli forces and were shot and killed as they tried to escape toward the mosques on the Mount.

(The rest of the media can’t seem to find anything newsworthy beyond “Russian collusion”)

 
Shroud of Turin bears blood of torture victim according to latest research ~ My May 7th edition of Saturday Shorts made mention of the burial coins used on the corpse in “The Shroud” being dated to the first couple of decades A.D.. Now blood analysis has shown that the man covered with the cloth was a victim of multiple acts of trauma and torture ~

New atomic resolution research indicates that the mysterious Shroud of Turin does in fact contain the blood of a torture victim, thus undermining theories that the shroud was painted, reports Catholic News Agency.
 
“On the basis of the experimental evidences of our atomic resolution TEM studies, the man wrapped in the [Shroud of Turin] suffered a strong polytrauma.”

There’s an excellent chance that this burial cloth is the real deal