Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Obama stonewalls SEAL Team 6 helicopter crash probe, watchdog says ~ No surprise here. Just the O’Ministration doing what it does best: obfuscate ~
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon in February signed an order requiring the Obama administration to release documents on a continual basis through the spring and summer. The Justice Department said at least 50 documents in the Pentagon have been identified as relevant, but only one has been turned over. And Justice unilaterally set a new deadline for the release and then ignored it, (Larry Klayman, head of Freedom Watch), said. Throughout, he said, Justice lawyers have refused to take his phone calls.
Pope Francis Invites Oprah, Ari Emanuel to the Vatican ~ How’s that again? According to the Hollywood Reporter, the pope is looking to update the church’s image. Somehow, I doubt that God is impressed. Christians are the supposed to influence culture (for the good) – that whole salt and light thing – not the other way around.
The Divinization of the Earth: A “Religion” Without a “God” ~ Re-embracing paganism ~
The direct connection between theories of earth primacy and brutal control of human beings through abortion, sterilization, and euthanasia simply cannot be avoided
U.S. Government Made ‘Humanized’ Mice With Tissue from Babies 17- to 22-Weeks Gestational Age ~ Uncle Sam playing Dr. Frankenstein?! I guess in view of the horrific Planned Parenthood revelations we shouldn’t be shocked.
By the way, the Senate Bill S. 1881, to defund Planned Parenthood, was defeated on Monday 53:46 (one not voting). How did your Senators vote?
And in the how’s-that-working-out-so-far? column ~Iran Already Sanitizing Nuclear Site, Intel Warns ~
The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress of evidence that Iran was sanitizing its suspected nuclear military site at Parchin, in broad daylight, days after agreeing to a nuclear deal with world powers.
Millions of gallons of toxic waste water spilled into river by… the EPA ~ And this is the agency that’s endlessly issuing environmental dictates to the rest of us?
A team of U.S. regulators probing contamination at a Colorado gold mine accidentally released a million gallons (3.8 million liters) of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday.
Jazz Shaw at Hot Air wonders whether they shouldn’t penalize themselves ~
Here’s a question for the government to consider. How much of a fine do you think the EPA should impose on itself? A farmer in North Carolina was sentenced to six months of house arrest and fined $15K for discharging water with cow feces in it into a local river. But that was just a farm. This was a mine. Well, in the Appalachian region, a coal mining outfit was fined more than $27M for discharging into rivers. Pan Am Railways was tagged with $375,000 in fines by the EPA for discharging into a river. And then there’s the granddaddy of them all… British Petroleum got nailed with $18.7 Billion in fines last month for the Deepwater Horizon spill. Obviously there’s a lot of precedent here.
Unfortunately, we-the-taxpaying-dupes would get stuck with the tab as usual.
FBI: Middle Eastern Men Intimidating U.S. Military Families In Colorado & Wyoming ~ “Middle Eastern men?” Jews? Chaldeans? Yazidis? Shhh… Don’t say “Muslim terrorists” ~
The FBI’s alert says Middle Eastern men attempted to gain personal information about military members and family members through intimidation. Those family members reported feeling scared.
The alert says the men haven’t been identified and the FBI isn’t sure if the incidents all involve the same men.
So much for protecting the country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. These clowns won’t even admit who the enemy is.
Corroded By Urine, San Fransisco Light Pole Collapses, Nearly Killing Man ~ No matter how many absurd ordinances it enacts, the bastion of Left Coast liberalism simply can’t escape reality ~
San Francisco is known for its left-wing politics and its natural beauty. But it might soon also be known as the city where public urination kills someone.
A man was driving in the city by the bay when a street light pole crashed down on the hood of his car, missing crushing him by about a foot. How did one of these ubiquitous poles collapse when there was no storm or wind? The base of the pole has rotted out from age and both dog and human urine.
Goliath’s Gates Found ~ Bible Proved Historically Accurate Once Again ~ You didn’t think the Bible was just a big old book of fairytales did you?
A massive gate unearthed in Israel may have marked the entrance to a biblical city that, at its heyday, was the biggest metropolis in the region.
The town, called Gath, was occupied until the ninth century B.C. In biblical accounts, the Philistines — the mortal enemies of the Israelites — ruled the city.
