Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Guardian Shocked that Florida Residents STILL Don’t Buy their Climate Hype ~ Watts Up With That suggests the news outlet calm down and get a firm grasp on reality ~
Guardian Reporter Ed Pilkington has been running around Marco Island Florida, desperately trying to find someone who thinks climate change is a problem […]
Hurricanes kill, but so do blizzards. Every place has its weather hazards. Hurricanes are not getting worse. Building wind turbines will do nothing to reduce the hazards of bad weather.
Where I Was on September 11 ~ This moving account from Dan McLaughlin makes the horrible tragedy seem all too fresh ~
I wrote this piece on September 13, 2001, when everything was still fresh, and I was still writing a baseball blog, “The Baseball Crank,” at The Providence Journal. I re-run it every year on this day.
On Tuesday, they tried to kill me…
Even more tragic, 16 years later, we dhimmis are still oblivious ~ President of Mosque Linked to World Trade Center Bombing Orders Erasure of 9/11 College Memorial
The Big Lie: Conservatives Opposing the Fascist Left are the Real Anti-Fascists ~ Daniel Greenfield reviews Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book ~
When the Democrats complain about the Klan, Dinesh D’Souza reminds us in The Big Lie that they were behind the KKK and they revived it not once, but twice.
The Big Lie, D’Souza describes, is the idea that “the very people who champion the centralized state, have a long history of racism and racial terrorism, used the power of government against their political opponents… and continue to use cultural intimidation and street thuggery to enforce their ideology, insist that they are the ones who are anti-fascist.”
Instead, he argues that the elements of fascism have historically been associated with the left.
Speaking of totalitarian tactics ~ Damaged Texas Churches Sue FEMA for Cutting Them Out of Hurricane Harvey Aid ~ Clearly there are some anti-God Obama holdovers in the agency ~
Even churches that worked with FEMA to provide disaster relief were refused funds provided to other nonprofits […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency gives disaster relief grants to not-for-profits — except for churches and synagogues. It will aid secular nonprofits like museums and zoos. It will aid senior centers and hospitals run by religious organizations, but not “houses of worship.” FEMA asserts that aiding religious congregations would violate the separation of church and state.
No, it wouldn’t, argues the public-interest law firm Becket. Becket has filed a lawsuit against FEMA on behalf of three churches damaged by Hurricane Harvey. They are Harvest Family Church, Hi-Way Tabernacle, and Rockport First Assembly of God.
Homeless population in San Diego SKYROCKETS – city now faces HUGE DISEASE outbreak… ~ When progressives are in charge utopia breaks out 
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Health officials in San Diego have scrambled for months to contain an outbreak of hepatitis A — vaccinating more than 19,000 people, putting up posters at bus stations and distributing hand sanitizer and cleansing wipes.
Despite those efforts, 16 people have died of the highly contagious virus in San Diego County and hundreds have become ill in what officials say is the nation’s second-largest outbreak of hepatitis A in decades.
To fight deadly hepatitis outbreak, San Diego begins power-washing streets with bleach ~ It’s their usual formula: Ignore reality. Problems ensue. Spend more of taxpayers money to combat the problems. Repeat.
American Diplomats Attacked in Bed, Safe a Few Feet Away: Cuba Mystery Deepens ~ This is kind of Area 51 weird. Strange sonic attacks – or “health attacks” – are emanating from some mysterious source, causing hearing problems, speech difficulties brain swelling, dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, balance problems and tinnitus, or prolonged ringing in the ears. But no one has any answers. “None of this has a reasonable explanation.” Hmmm…
Planned Parenthood Teams up with Satanists to Promote Abortion in Missouri ~ of course they do. One begat the other ~
The Satanic Temple has often lent its muscle to pro-abortion efforts alongside Planned Parenthood, and in this case has pressured Missouri legislators and worked through the courts to bring about a relaxing of abortion restrictions, according to reports. One of the Temple’s fundamental tenets is that “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
At Reed College, the left clashes with itself over free speech ~ Intimidated into silence by the angry progressive activists who seem intent on erasing any semblance of objective truth. They don’t want to hear ANYTHING that’s even remotely outside their extremely subjective and myopic worldview ~
Prof. Lucía Martinez Valdivia who describes herself as “female, mixed race, American and Peruvian, gay, atheist, and relatively young.” In other words, she’s no one’s idea of a conservative white supremacist. Last year, when students planned to disrupt Prof. Valdivia’s lecture on Sappho (a lesbian poet), she begged them not to be too confrontational.
Unable to form logical or coherent arguments they resort to name-calling; somehow she’s a “race traitor” “anti-black” an “ableist” and a “gaslighter.”
“I am intimidated by these students,” she later wrote in a blog post. “I am scared to teach courses on race, gender or sexuality or even texts that bring these issues up in any way…I’m at a loss as to how to begin to address it, especially since many of these students don’t believe in historicity or objective facts (they denounce the latter as being a tool of the white cisheteropatriarchy).”
The Clinton Private Rooftop Garden: An Obscene Violation Of Charity Law & Principles ~ “Let them eat cake” the Clintons snickered in 2007 as the 14,000 square foot rooftop garden was installed on the rooftop of the Presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas. There’s also a for-profit restaurant on the roof, and all sorts of other suspicious funding games going on. And her highness ponders “What Happened.”
High School Football Players Rush onto Field, Pray Out Loud During ‘Moment of Silence’ ~ Standing up to the secular bullies ~
Prior to last week’s football game between West Virginia’s Clay County and Braxton County, the teams took a knee together and bowed their heads in prayer. Pregame prayers are not an unusual occurrence in that part of the country, but this time was different. The group prayer came on the heels of a recent ban on prayers over the loudspeaker at games. The new rule was made in response to a single individual who complained about the public display of faith.
Another encouraging victory for religious liberty ~ Judge Suspends City’s Ban of Farmers Over Their Marriage Views ~ Lansing decided that these folks were no longer allowed to sell their produce at the city’s farmers’ market simply because they wouldn’t host same-sex “marriages” at their farm. Glad the court disagrees – so far ~
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Michigan farmers, who were banned from selling their produce at a farmers market on public property because of their religious beliefs about marriage, may resume selling their goods there as early as Sunday while their case proceeds.
Animal friendships that’ll touch your heart ~ Unlikely pals make the best buds. A collection of photos to make you smile ~
