Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Ten days later and the mid-terms are still dragging on ~
• Democrat Trailing in Georgia House Race Announces She Will Request Recount
• MISSOURI: Black Republicans Claim Police Prevented Them From Canvassing
• Weird. The Palm Beach elections supervisor threatened to arrest reporters and it’s not a bigger story
• Arizona GOP Announces Independent Audit of Maricopa County Recorder ~
The Arizona Republican Party announced Thursday it will conduct an independent audit of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office after legal issues and other complaints arose in the days-long count to decide Arizona’s next senator.
This recount circus will only get worse in future elections. We truly need to preserve the integrity of the voting process – or it will just become a charade like it is in Islamic theocracies and other dictatorships. Here’s a petition you can sign to ask Washington to Investigate Voter Fraud on a National Level. Please add your name.
Amazon HQ2: Magnet for Corruption, Creative Destruction ~ And the winner is… Queens, New York. Crooked pols and tech billionaires get richer, and tax payers get shafted ~
Deals like HQ2 are a magnet for corruption. Amazon claims the new Long Island City site will create 25,000 jobs with an average wage of more than $150,000 per year. Ditto Virginia. In exchange for this fairy tale, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio ponied up more than $1.5 billion in tax breaks and grants to be overseen by Albany’s famously corrupt political culture.
In first, US votes against UN resolution condemning Israeli presence in Golan ~ Excellent. We used to abstain on this issue. The Trump doctrine in action ~
The United States on Friday for the first time voted against an annual UN resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights, signifying a dramatic shift in US policy toward the territory.
Palestinian suspended for helping Israelis fix flat tire ~ All you need to know about the Israeli/Palestinian situation in one brief news story ~
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A local Palestinian police chief has been suspended for helping Israeli soldiers fix a flat tire in the West Bank.
Trump Effect: Booming Economy Creates Another 848,000 Millionaires…In A Year ~ But hey, let’s put the zero-sum-gain Democrats back in charge (so they can redistribute all that cash) ~
The tax cuts passed by President Trump in 2017 have created a solid foundation for economic growth. U.S. worker wages have reached its highest levels in a decade. Over three million new jobs created, three million working class families benefitting from bonus checks averaging $1,000 or more, and record unemployment, sinking to 3.7 percent.
Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro’s Lawmaker Son to Meet with Donald Trump ~ Trump Jr. meets “Tropical Trump” Jr. ~
Eduardo Bolsonaro, who was recently re-elected as a Federal Deputy in the city of São Paolo, will travel to Washington on November 12 on a trip organized by an “American think tank.”
“The trip I will take will form of an initial effort of rapprochement and goodwill between Brazil and the United States, two friendly nations that have been sidelined in recent years for ideological reasons.” […]
Bolsonaro, elected President of Brazil last week in a major shock to the country’s political establishment, has pledged to forge much closer relations with the United States. He is also likely to mirror much of Trump’s foreign policy, including pushing back on growing Chinese influence in the region, moving the Brazilian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and helping to isolate Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship in Venezuela.
Abortion Activists Call White Governor Racist Because He’s Upset Black Babies Are Aborted ~ Sometimes the Left is so irrational that it’s simply mind-boggling. This is one of those times ~
On Monday, (Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant) held a press conference with National Right to Life President Carol Tobias and U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith where he mourned the loss of so many unborn babies to abortion in the black community.
The pro-life governor asked why there is no outrage in the media about “the genocide of 20 million African American children” by the abortion industry, the Jackson Free Press reported earlier this week.
Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund Executive Director Laurie Bertram Roberts called Bryant’s heart for unborn babies “disgusting and vile.” 😯
Australia: Muslims laugh as they’re found guilty of jihad plot to massacre non-Muslims on Christmas Day ~ Because plotting to kill infidels is always so humorous ~
Three would-be ISIS terrorists joked around in court as they were found guilty of conspiring to kill Australians using machetes and suicide vests.
Hamza Abbas, 23, his cousin Abdullah Chaarani, 27, and Ahmed Mohamed, 25, were found guilty in the Supreme Court of acts in preparation for an attack targeting Federation Square, St Paul’s Cathedral and Flinders Street station on Christmas Day 2016.
Pence Says Myanmar’s Handling of Rohingya ‘Without Excuse’ ~ The vice president met with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Sinapore, one of the objectives being to clean up the mess made by the previous administration in Burma/Myanmar ~
In a meeting on the sidelines of a regional summit in Singapore, Pence told Suu Kyi that he was anxious to hear about progress in resolving the crisis, which stems from a violent military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.
He Fights ~ Evan Sayet on why we on the Right love the fact that we finally have a leader who doesn’t wilt in the face of leftist attacks ~
(T)o my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
Michigan College Cancels ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Because ‘Not All Women Have Vaginas’ ~ Denying basic biology ~
The women’s resource center at Eastern Michigan University put the kibosh on the famous production since it caters only to women who have the physical anatomy that accompanies the female sex, according to The Ann Arbor News.
Which of course only leads to more insanity ~ PRAGER: If Sex Isn’t Fixed, Why Is Age? ~
We are living in a time of intellectual and moral chaos. The political movement known as leftism or progressivism (not liberalism) is first and foremost a chaotic force. And nowhere is that chaos more evident than in the left’s attempt to end the reality that the human being is created either male or female. That is “binary” nonsense, according to the left.
Operation Christian Child replies to anti-Muslim charge ~ It seems atheists have nothing better to do than run around condemning Christian charity. Good thing Humanists UK weren’t around when live-saving (and soul-saving) organizations like the Red Cross and Salvation Army first got started ~
“Our purpose is to show God’s love in a tangible way to children in need around the world,” Samaritan’s Purse stressed. “We do this by distributing millions of shoebox gifts to children who are affected by war, disease, disaster, poverty and famine to let them know that they are not forgotten.”
The ministry then impressed that it has never masqueraded Operation Christmas Child as a secular program.
The Last Man: Frank Buckles and the Great War ~ Missouri farm boy Frank Buckles was in both world wars. Rob Schwarzwalder recounts the inspiring story of an average, great American. Forever grateful that our country has been blessed to have so very many good men like Mr. Buckles ~
Despite the bitter proof of man’s fallenness, Frank Buckles and his millions of Doughboy colleagues did not serve in vain. They showed the world that when a nation like Germany torpedoed our ships and tried to incite a foreign power (Mexico) to invade us, we would do what we needed to do to stop it.
There are, today, millions of men and women like Frank Buckles willing to do whatever is needed to stand up for America. At the risk of their lives. Many do, every day.
