Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Killing the Unborn, Confessing to Plants ~ You can’t make this insanity up – and this was at Union Theological Seminary in NYC- nominally at least, a Christian seminary. Disappointing, but no longer surprising, as Dr. Michael Brown points out ~

But this is exactly what you can expect from a seminary that long ago abandoned the truth. Confession is made to plants while the slaughtering of the unborn is affirmed.

 
Sorry, Greta, even your fellow Swedes aren’t buying the climate change claptrap anymore ~ Greta Thunberg, teenaged climate activist, is currently in the U.S., trying to incite climate panic. Her strategy doesn’t seem to have worked too well in Sweden. According to a recent poll, two thirds of Scandinavians, are dissenters from the climate “consensus” ~

It points out a sorry reality: that the cute and sincere Swedish kidlet is a pawn of a consortium of greedy green venture capitalists and investors whose agenda is to get in on government-contracts green action based on legislated green priorities, same way Al Gore did, and make themselves a crony-capitalism killing.

 
Did Warren’s NYC Rally Really Rival Trump’s in New Mexico? Um, no. Granted, the numbers themselves are pretty comparable, but factoring in the population statistics – 8.4 million in NYC vs. 2.01 million in entire state of New Mexico – no contest ~

If we assume Warren’s crowd estimate of 20,000 is correct, her rally size was 0.23 percent of the local population. Trump’s rally, however, if we take the low estimate of 12,000, was 0.59 percent of the entire state. But, that method of calculation is actually really unfair to Trump. New Mexico has a land area of 121,357 square miles, while New York City has a land area of 303 square miles. Even if we took the five largest cities by population, and assumed they were all within a two-hour drive of the rally, the population density would be significantly less than New York City, which makes Trump’s rally numbers far more significant than Elizabeth Warren’s.

 
NYC to Drop ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban after Jewish Therapist Mounts Legal Challenge ~ Good news! If über-progressive NYC is coming to their senses on this issue maybe other jurisdictions will wake up as well ~

The law, enacted in December 2017, prohibited psychotherapists from charging patients for “services intended to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” Therapists would be fined $1,000 for each violation […]
 
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing Schwartz. In a statement to PJ Media on Monday, ADF senior counsel Roger Brooks celebrated the city’s move to strike the counseling censorship law.
 
“All New Yorkers and all Americans deserve the right to private conversations, free from government control. By trying to regulate and censor private sessions between an adult and his counselor, New York City directly violated freedom of speech—a core right protected by the First Amendment,” Brooks said. “The city council appears to have realized its error and correctly concluded that this censorship is unconstitutional.”

 
Storm Area 51 Participants Meet Outside Gates in Nevada to ‘See Them Aliens’ ~ Hmmm… Nothing better to do with their time? At least they mostly came in peace ~

A group of 100 alien enthusiasts gathered at Area 51 in Nevada early Friday morning to follow through with the Storm Area 51 plan originally meant as a joke […]
Authorities said that during the gathering, only one person was arrested for indecent exposure after they were caught urinating near the security gate.

 
Iran Ready to “Wipe the Zionist Regime off the Map” ~ World yawns ~

For some reason, the Islamic Republic is getting a free pass for constantly threatening to wipe out Israel off the map. This lopsided injustice is either a case of selective amnesia or outrageous double standards by the international community…. The international community… needs to stop its double standards by taking measures against Iran’s vows to annihilate Israel.

 
Censure Vote Against Kyrsten Sinema Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things ~ Democrats should just change their name to the Totalitarian Party and be done with it. They’re growing angrier and more intolerant by the day ~

While censuring politicians in theory is reasonable, it seems to be employed here as a cudgel to curb the voices of the electorate. With both Democrats and Republicans, a more effective means to get majority-level votes would be to sell the party’s ideas to the electorate so they vote for someone who supports those ideas. This approach, while more tedious, seems more ethical and effective than censuring politicians for keeping their voters happy.

 
Hillary Clinton blames voter suppression for her election loss ~ Along with everything but the kitchen sink ~

Other reasons Clinton has blamed for her loss include former FBI Director James Comey, former President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Jill Stein, the media, Sen. Bernie Sanders, misogyny, resentment from white people, and sexism.

 
No, Team Trump didn’t just junk clean-water protections ~ Under Obama’s EPA, the feds controlled “virtually anything that gets wet” ~

All the pre-Obama protections of the water supply remain in effect. This simply undoes a move that gave EPA jurisdiction over vast amounts of dry land, in clear violation of Congress’ intent.

 
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh’s character ~ Leftists certainly are tenacious. Resentful, scheming, dishonest, but definitely tenacious.
 
And here’s a big surprise ~ Unmasked: Secretive Arabella Advisors Really Behind ‘Grassroots’ Protest Movement Opposing Trump’s Judicial Nominees ~ It’s all behind-the-scenes orchestration ~

An organization that leads the protest movement against President Trump’s judicial nominees and presents itself as grassroots is really the project of Arabella Advisors, a largely unknown, massively funded strategy company pushing the interests of wealthy leftist donors.
 
A central component of Arabella’s activism is opposition to Trump’s conservative judicial nominees. One Arabella-tied organization calling itself Demand Justice quickly thrust itself into the center of opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh. The Capital Research Center has explained that Demand Justice is actually a project of Arabella’s Sixteen Thirty Fund.

 
News You Should Know: Victories of Magnifying Proportions ~ Encouraging developments from Alliance Defending Freedom, who are standing up to the assault on our First Amendment ~

Like these kids ➡ Alabama Students Defy Atheists, Recite the Lord’s Prayer ~

The school district had replaced the traditional pre-game prayer (at Opelika High School) with a moment of silence. The prayer was eliminated after a group of out-of-town atheists had complained[…]
 
On September 13… instead of remaining silent, the students rose up and with a mighty voice they recited The Lord’s Prayer.