Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
A flat-Earther’s plan to launch himself in a homemade rocket just hit a speed bump ~ Uh-oh. I think this guy is aiming for a Darwin Award ~
A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket — in an effort to prove that Earth is flat — said he is postponing the experiment after he couldn’t get permission from a federal agency to conduct it on public land […]
“It’s still happening. We’re just moving it three miles down the road,” (Mike Hughes) told The Washington Post on Friday. “This is what happens anytime you have to deal with any kind of government agency.”
Canada rejects Christian couple for adoption ~ What society used to consider an optimal environment in which to rear children is now to be shunned; amorality and disorder are the new norms ~
A married Canadian couple is suing the Alberta government after being rejected for adoption because of their Christian beliefs. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, alleges the province denied their application for adoption because of their religious beliefs on sexuality and gender.
Girl Scouts Tell Parents: Don’t Force Daughters to Hug Family at Christmas ~ Progressives won’t be happy until they destroy every vestige of tradition, the nuclear family and the civil society ~
If the progressives gets their way, the current generation of children will grow up to be politically correct robots who don’t offend anyone, and apparently devoid of understanding healthy displays of affection.
Report: H.R. McMaster Trashed Trump at July Dinner, Said He Had Intelligence of a ‘Kindergartner’ ~ Like I said, this guy has to go – I’m sure MSNBC would love to have him ~
(At) a dinner in July with Oracle CEO Safra Catz – mocking his intelligence, five sources told Buzzfeed (that)… McMaster called Trump an “idiot” and a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” according to the sources, four of whom told Buzzfeed they spoke with Catz directly.
Charles Manson’s Radical Chic ~ Leftism often has a strange attraction to the dark side. Manson and his followers were ghouls – and yet there’s only one degree of separation between them and BHO ~
Just as it is easy to forget how pro-Soviet the American Left was at times, it is easy to forget how pro-Manson American radicals were. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach. Wild!” That was the assessment of Bernardine Dohrn, the champagne radical who, with her husband, Bill Ayers, participated in a campaign of domestic terrorism, including bombings, and later became cozy with Barack Obama, hosting events for the aspiring politician in her home. The “pigs” she referred to included Sharon Tate, an actress who was eight months pregnant at the time. She was murdered and mutilated.
Family of 18-year-old stab victim Jason Isaacs: knife crime is ‘out of control’ in London ~ You can confiscate all the guns you want; Evil will find a way.
Secret document kept truth about EU membership from Brits for 50 years ~ The global elite ruling class has been deceitfully pushing the nefarious new world order for decades ~
“Despite all the claims from politicians of many parties that the EU was not about becoming a central state this 1971 document shows that is exactly what the plan was. Arch Remoaners from Labour, Lib Dems and the Tories need to check this out and ask themselves why they are MPs if they don’t actually want Westminster to be in charge of this country. We voted for Brexit what needs to happen is a proper clean break from Brussels so we can once again become a sovereign nation with money being spent in this country on services we need and have Parliament and courts making and ruling on the laws.”
– Annabelle Sanderson, Brexit expert and former advisor to Nigel Farage (UKIP leader)
People are Mad the Museum of the Bible Represents ‘Only a Judeo-Christian Perspective’ ~ Yes of course. How strange that a museum about a Book that claims to be transcendent truth doesn’t take a relativistic approach to suit a post-truth society.
Darwinians Baffled that Students Refuse To Be Indoctrinated ~ Maybe because the more we learn, the less that evolution makes sense as a viable theory?
Evolutionists have had complete domination of public school science for decades. They can’t believe that a sizable percentage still don’t accept evolution.
The New Secular Puritan Covenant ~ Unable to tolerate human imperfection, Christ Church of Alexandria, Virginia recently removed plaques memorializing George Washington and Robert E. Lee who had both worshiped there. In this article at Crisis Magazine John M. Grondelski discusses the unbending “theology” of modern secularism ~
Today’s secular Puritans, in an ahistorical approach to moral development, impose modern mores on former times to demand a conversion account from those who cannot give it—because they are dead and dumb—and so excommunicate them posthumously from society (and even certain Episcopal parishes) […]
Today’s secular Puritans might insist they want to protect “everybody’s right to choose” one’s moral views, but the truth is they expect all of us—and certainly social institutions—to institutionalize their morality of ethical relativism, especially in matters sexual.
Margaret Atwood et al. rail against theocracy, but it is today’s intolerant, secular Puritans that want to erect a strictly confessional state.
From misty peaks in China to a rainbow over Arizona: The stunning winners of the panoramic photography awards revealed ~ Some awesome outdoor pix ~
