Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Survivors in Bahamas desperate for aid after Hurricane Dorian (Video) ~ No longer front page news, the destruction Dorian brought to the islands is heartbreaking, thousands are still missing ~
Two weeks after the devastation of Hurricane Dorian, the situation in the Bahamas is just as desperate as ever. One America’s Pearson Sharp sat down with Doug Manchester, a San Diego developer, who has a charity that is organizing relief efforts on the island.
Bernie Sanders Attends ISNA Convention With Islamists Who Backed Killing Gay People. And the media refuses to cover it ~ Islamist and LGBTQ worldviews are ultimately incompatible. So I often wonder, when we religious conservatives are either dead or in re-education camps, which ideology will win the battle for global supremacy?
The ISNA (Islamic Society of North America, a Muslim Brotherhood creation) presidential forum was moderated by Salam Al-Marayati, the head of MPAC, who had defended Hamas and Hezbollah, and justified Hezbollah’s mass murder of Marines in Lebanon.
“I believe in the concept of solidarity,” Senator Bernie Sanders began his speech to an unindicted co-conspirator in funding the murder of Jews. He vowed that he would “forcefully combat this virulent ideology of racism and hatred” at a convention with speakers who had endorsed the murder of gays.
Orwell would love the cognitive dissonance. And the media malpractice.
Had President Trump appeared at a convention whose panel members have defended killing gay people, it would have been a nationwide story that would have been covered widely and extensively […]
Instead, Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro appeared at a convention with Islamic clerics who have defended the death penalty for homosexuality, and no one in the media wanted to cover the story.
Media Headlines Leave THC Out of Link to Fatal Vaping-Related Illness ~ Not sure who’s behind this anti-vaping agenda, but we’re not getting the full story ~
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Sept. 6 that it is aware of over 450 nationwide cases of a fatal vaping-related illness called lipoid pneumonia that it describes as a certain type of non-infectious pneumonia. It is likely caused by inhaling illicit or bootleg THC oil containing vitamin E with an e-cigarette.
“Apparently, there are lots of youth who are vaping marijuana products and they often purchase THC vape cartridges off the street,” Boston University Community Health Sciences Professor Michael Siegel told the Daily Caller News Foundation […]
But media outlets are reporting these illnesses as if they are related to general, nicotine-based vaping, which may mislead people as to the actual root of this issue. Some headlines and TV chyrons have excluded THC as a crucial link to the illness, even if the articles that follow do include it as a likely cause.
Over 6 Million Americans Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump Presidency ~ More winning
Judge Denies AG’s Request for Gag Order Censoring Pro-Life Reporting on Bogus Trial of David Daleiden ~ We dodged a liberty-killing bullet here. This article at Life News includes a good summary of this entire miscarriage of justice ~
A judge has denied the California Attorney General’s Office’s request for a court gag order Tuesday that could prevent the public from learning the truth about David Daleiden’s shocking undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood.[…]
“It’s blackletter California law that you are not supposed to get a search warrant to seize the unpublished materials of a journalist, whether citizen journalist or professional journalist,” Daleiden told Carlson last week. “But that’s what Kamala Harris did…to protect [Planned Parenthood] from further scrutiny from the crimes of selling aborted baby body parts.”
Has the EPA done due diligence on the IPCC Climate Report? (Has anyone?) ~ This story is from Australia, where their climate alarmists are every bit as extreme as ours. The bottom line is the same too: GIGO – garbage in garbage out ~
The EPA is a scientific advisory body — the government doesn’t have to follow their advice — but if it does, and the advice was wrong — who is responsible for loss and damages which are foreseeable?
The IPCC favoured models do not include solar magnetic, spectral or particle-flow parameters, and repeatedly fail. They are unaudited, unvalidated, and unaccountable. If the sun controls the climate these models will not show that. If the EPA is not doing due diligence on reports of a foreign committee, which person representing Western Australians is? […]
In the oceans, the warming isn’t statistically significant, sea-levels started rising too early, aren’t rising fast enough, aren’t accelerating, nor are warming anywhere near as much as they predicted. Antarctica was supposed to be warming faster than almost anywhere but they were totally wrong. The vast Southern Ocean is cooling not warming. The only part of Antarctica that’s warming sits on top of a volcano chain where 91 new volcanoes were recently discovered.
Speaking of non-melting ice ~ Ship Carrying ‘Climate Change Warriors’ Concerned About Melting Arctic Ice Gets Stuck in Ice ~
“Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago,” reports the Maritime Bulletin. “The ship is on Arctic tour with Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice.”
A Great Win for a Conservative Consulting Firm and Free Speech! ~ I hadn’t even heard about this case and it’s right in my own backyard – the reality-free zone of Ann Arbor, Michigan (home to the University of Michigan). Grant Strobl and Jacob Chludzinski, members of Young Americans for Freedom started a political consulting and marketing firm, ThinkRight Strategies ~
But Ann Arbor has a law that threatened their work.
The law makes it illegal for businesses to “discriminate” based on “political beliefs.” If Ann Arbor were to apply this law to ThinkRight, then advocacy materials ThinkRight creates for Republican candidates to promote limited government, lower taxes, and the sanctity of life, must also be created for Socialist candidates to promote government control, higher taxes, and abortion on demand.
That would contradict the entire purpose of Grant and Jacob’s mission to promote conservative ideals! Not only that, but it’s a blatant violation of their freedom of speech.
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on behalf of Grant and Jacob, and thankfully the city has agreed not to apply the coercive legislation to ThinkRight.
Gay ‘chemsex’ is fueling HIV epidemics in Europe, experts warn ~ In case you were thinking western culture wasn’t quite perverse enough… disgusting ~
“Chemsex is very pervasive now — it’s a growing phenomenon,” said Rusi Jaspal, a professor of psychology and sexual health at De Montfort University in the British city of Leicester who has been studying the spread of HIV and the chemsex scene […]
Chemsex is characterized by the use of drugs such as crystal meth, mephedrone and GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, to enhance sexual arousal, performance and pleasure.
A subset of chemsex is known as “slamsex”, where partygoers self-inject drugs rather than taking them as pills or via pipes. The drugs “reduce inhibitions and increase feelings of horniness or lust,” Jaspal said, and contribute to “a perfect storm” in groups with high HIV rates for the virus to spread […]
“People are not scared any more of HIV,” he said. “Many people I see say they think ‘it’s only a matter of time anyway, so I might as well have some fun.'”
Mainstream Media: GOP May Have Won NC Special Election Races, But It Didn’t Cover the Spread ~ Have any mainstreams reported anything positive about the Trump presidency and Republicans who support him in the last three years? They certainly aren’t gonna start now ~
You’d never know Republicans won by the headline on the Atlantic story by David Graham. “North Carolina Gives Republicans a Wake-Up Call,” it reads, with a subhead: “The results of a special election portend trouble for the GOP in 2020 – but also revealed real weaknesses for Democrats.”
Here’s another story they won’t be mentioning ~ Sorry Dems, The Air Force Deal To Refuel Near Trump’s Scottish Resort Was Made Under Obama ~
Looks like Democrats have another swing and a miss on this latest attempt of brewing up a Trump scandal because the arrangement between the United States Air Force and the airport near the resort was signed during the Obama administration.
Criminologists Mislead Us ~ That one blatant phenomenon they don’t have the guts to talk about ~ Dr. Walter Williams (a black guy by the way) with some inconvenient truth ~
“Disproportionate black involvement in violent crime represents the elephant in the room amid the current controversy over policing in the United States.”
Why?
Black families of yesteryear were mainly two-parent and stable, even during slavery. Black people didn’t tolerate property destruction. There were few school fights. Disrespect and assaults on teachers were virtually unknown. These are now all too common. The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. Find a 70-, 80- or 90-year-old black person and ask him whether today’s conduct among black youth would have been tolerated yesteryear. I guarantee you that no will be their answer.
Summer of ’42 Star Says ‘God Saved Me’ After Suicide Attempt and Accidental Shooting ~ An inspiring account of trials, redemption and renewal ~
“We all have a purpose in our lives and we’re not going to leave until we turn it down or move forward and do it. … And I think I’m still here to show people about the power of God’s love and that there is hope.” ~ Jennifer O’Neill
