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

 
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Poverty Law Center ~ Devolving from a force for good to one for wickedness, this group outlived their usefulness long ago ~

The SPLC will certainly come down because it has grown fat, proud, deceitful, and hateful, calling evil good and good evil. Because it has become the voice of the oppressor rather than the voice of the oppressed.

Related: The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center

 
NJ Governor Signs “Rain Tax” Bill; Residents’ Property Rates Rise “Based On The Weather” ~ The latest progressive lunacy, from the “Garden State” ~

Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips has said the “rain-tax” bill permits local communities to tax “based on the weather,” and allows unlimited bonding and debt to be placed on the backs of property taxpayers. Not that bonding and debt aren’t already on the backs of the taxpayer, it is, but now New Jersey gets to carry the financial burden when it rains. “The last thing this state needs is more debt and another runaway tax. Especially one that taxes the weather” said DePhillips.

 
Mark Meadows: US ambassadors conspired with DOJ to take down Trump ~ According to Rep. Meadows (R-NC) ~

“(A)dditional information that is coming out that will show not only was there no collusion, but there was a coordinated effort to take this president down,” Meadows told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “We talk about the ‘Deep State.’ There are players now, even ambassadors, that are sitting ambassadors that were involved in part of this with the FBI-DOJ.”

 
Italy: Muslim migrant bus driver rams bus full of children into cars on highway, sets it on fire ~ When you import a pathology…

An Italian bus driver of Senegalese descent was arrested on Wednesday after hijacking his own vehicle and setting it on fire, allegedly threatening to kill more than 50 children on board whose hands he had bound.
 
The 47-year-old man said he was acting in revenge for the thousands of migrants, many of them African, who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years while trying to reach Europe from Libya.

Luckily there were there were no critical injuries. Twelve children were treated for bruises, smoke inhalation or because they were suffering from shock.

 
Jeanine Pirro’s Right – Sharia Law Incompatible With U.S. Constitution ~

Everything we stand for as Americans, free speech, freedom of religion, equal rights for women, are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate protector of our rights and Western values Sharia law is incompatible with our values and our democracy.

 
Why banning “conversion therapy” is more dangerous than you think ~ “Rebel Priest” (Anglican) addresses a law currently under consideration in the U.K. ~

It would prohibit any effort to help someone who suffered with gender dysphoria to accept and live as their biological sex, even if they wanted such help. It would require everyone to affirm people’s claims about what their ‘gender identity’ is and make it a criminal offence to take any action (even if requested by the person themselves) aimed at bringing their psychology in line with their biology […]
 
(I)t wouldn’t just ban trying to change a person’s sexual orientation, it would ban any expression of moral or religious teaching that counselled against engaging in gay sex.

 
Obama Admin. Ignored Public Health Experts Seeking Fentanyl Crisis Declaration ~ How did the mainstreams miss this? They probably don’t care about the opioid crisis either ~

In May of 2016, 11 public health experts wrote a private letter to six Obama administration officials—including the heads of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Centers for Disease Control—asking for a public health emergency to be declared so that the federal government could better respond to the surge of overdose deaths.
 
But, in what the Post characterized as “one in a series of missed opportunities,” the administration declined to declare an emergency. Instead, fentanyl overdoses continued to grow unabated, with Congress and President Donald Trump not taking action for another two years.

Blame Climate Change for stupid British Voters choosing Brexit says ABC ~ Climate change is such a useful bogeyman, we can even blame it for Brexit ~

If only we had built more windmills, and changed more light-globes we could have prevented the British voting to control their own nation. It all makes sense — if you are insane, or a broadcaster paid one billion a year to promote Big Government.

 
CBN News Reporter Attacked, Nearly Kidnapped by 3 Maduro Thugs on Venezuela Border ~ On the Columbian border; it’s a wild west show down there ~

As I was filming along the riverbank, I was attacked by three men who tried to drag me into Venezuela. There were several signs that these attackers were tied to the regime – for example, they were smoking cigarettes which most Venezuelans can’t afford since they’re struggling to survive. And this wasn’t a robbery attempt since they didn’t take my camera and they were literally trying to drag me across the border.

 
The Case for Jexodus ~ How much anti-Semitism it take to wake up liberal Jews and get them to leave the Democrat party?

The Democrats are not a political movement with good ideas that happens to be troubled by anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism is the direct result of those ideas on the domestic and foreign policy front. Rep. Omar sits on the House Foreign Relations Committee spewing anti-Semitism because the Democrats believe that Islamic terrorism is justified […]

 
The Democrats can’t be reformed with pleas and arguments about tolerance. Expecting them to disavow anti-Semitism is also a demand that they abandon their domestic and foreign policy ideas.

 
Media Touts ‘Clear Sign of Human-Caused Climate Change.’ Here Are the Facts ~ Marc Morano straightens out AP reporter Seth Borenstein on the not-really-changing climate ~

Borenstein, the chief climate reporter for the Associated Press, has a long history of promoting dubious climate claims and essentially lobbying the public to “believe” that man-made climate change is a dire emergency and that government “solutions” are needed.
 
He has repeatedly recycled Antarctic melt fears despite contrary evidence, and unscientifically claimed that “climate change” has made the Earth “weirder” and “downright wilder.”

 
Trump greets kids with Down syndrome at White House on World Down Syndrome Day ~ This is the Donald Trump you rarely see on the network news ~

“All people are endowed by their Creator with dignity and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Despite some persistent myths and stigmas, even within the medical community, our Nation strongly embraces the undeniable truth that a Down syndrome diagnosis is an opportunity to embrace God’s gifts. I stand for life — in all of its beautiful manifestations — and I, and my Administration, will continue to condemn the prejudice and discrimination that Americans with Down syndrome too often endure.”

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

 
First, some commentary on the New Zealand mosque murders ~
 
New Zealand shooting’s a social media wake-up call — YouTube, others, must stop amplifying violent crimes ~ Harmeet K. Dhillon, partner Dhillon Law Group in San Francisco (and frequent Fox News guest), takes the tech giants to task for not doing more to discourage tragedies like this ~

(W)e have seen a disturbing trend in recent school, church and other mass murders. The rise of social media and the ability to live-stream an attack give sick killers an added incentive to do their deeds with a huge, international audience of transfixed viewers. And there is no intermediation to soften the blow.

 
New Zealand murders: repercussions and perspective ~ Very few media types are comparing this event to the ongoing murders of Christians, worldwide, on a daily basis. It was bad four years ago. And it’s only grown worse since then. This is from Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles, via Jihad Watch ~

Terrorist attacks against Muslims in the Western world are extremely rare. This morning’s carnage in two mosques in New Zealand, with the death toll currently at 50, is the first major event of its kind since the Quebec City mosque shooting—over two years ago – which killed six persons.
 
(As for the alleged “Islamophobic incidents” in general, overwhelmingly they are either unverifiable or too trivial to be taken seriously.)
 
While 56 dead in two years is 56 too many, this regrettable incident will dominate the headlines infinitely more than any comparable carnage involving Christians, notably the 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings in Alexandria; it killed 45 people, and was all but ignored by the Western media and politicians.

 
3000 Yazidi sex slaves missing and feared dead ~ Here’s a story the mainstreams apparently don’t think worthy of mentioning ~

Are the lives of Yazidi girls and women so valueless in the eyes of the Western media? Add to that the fact that thousands of other Yazidi sex slaves who were tortured and murdered. Where also are the human rights activists? Why do they ignore these victims of jihad terror and abuse (ISIS)?

 
World’s Thermostat Is in the Creator’s Hand – Always Has Been, and Always Will Be ~ Common sense commentary from Charlie Daniels, acknowledging the valuable role ecologists originally played in cleaning up the environment, while calling out today’s disingenuous climate-changers ~

This “the world will end in 12 years” brand of tactic is a farce, an attempt at a power grab that has a lot more to do with election than environment.
 
It is designed to scare the people of this country into giving up convenience and personal freedom so that a bunch of radicals can control every facet of life from cradle to grave […]
 
I firmly believe that we should do our best to clean up our environment and try to persuade China, Russia, India and the other real polluters to clean up their act, but even if it’s done to the “Nth” degree, it will make for a cleaner, more healthy, pleasant world, but it will affect the temperature of the earth, not one jot, nor one tittle […]
 
When mankind tries to take over the things that belong to the Creator, and the temperature of this and all planets are controlled by the hand and will of Almighty God, he finds himself at odds with an eternally implacable force, the results of which are not pretty.

 
Amazon Crosses a Very Dangerous Censorship Line ~ The planet’s largest bookseller is now engaging in book banning. Shades of Hitler ~

With the news last week that Amazon has banned Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, co-authored by British activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin, Amazon has crossed a very dangerous and precarious line […]
 
When McLoughlin, who helped expose the “grooming” crimes committed by some British Muslims, received word that the book had been removed from Amazon, he wrote, “This is the twenty-first century equivalent of the Nazis taking out the books from university libraries and burning them.
 
“Can you think of another scholarly book on Islam that has been banned by Amazon? Mein Kampf is for sale on Amazon. As are books like the terrorist manual called The Anarchist Cookbook.”

This is what true Islamaphobia looks like. (Cowering in face of totalitarian ideology.)

 
POLAR BEAR Habitat Update: Abundant Sea Ice Across The Arctic, Even In The Barents Sea ~ Despite dire predictions from the alarmists that the ice would have melted by 2012, 2013, 2014… And we’re supposed to believe the same doomsday prophets about “climate change?”
 
Beto O’Rourke, Climate Change, and the End of the World ~ Will Beto’s crazy hyperbole catch on with the young, ignorant and gullible? ~

The scary thing is not that this new presidential candidate believes this timetable (the world will end in 12 years unless…) to be true.
 
It’s that today’s intellectual environment is such that he can say these things without being laughed to scorn. Worse still, he believes that this kind of rhetoric will help his campaign rather than hurt it. And he might well be right.

 
It’s already started ~ Birthstrikers – cancelling their future kids to advertise climate change? ~

Two hundred years from now anthropologists will marvel at a bizarre cult at the start of the third millennium that were so terrified of climate change that they vowed not to have children until the weather got perfect, or climate change “ended” or the Yeti appeared at their press conference.
 
This is the logical end point of where the self-hate civilization gets us.

Actually, it’s probably best that these clueless folks don’t reproduce.
 

These 3 videos from CBP show EXACTLY why there’s a crisis on the southern border ~ Videos from U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations in the San Diego area illustrate how out-of-control this situation has become. The illegals are even throwing little kids over fences as decoys. Just the sort of immigrants America needs eh?
 

Bible Was Right #529: Springs of the Sea ~ The more we discover about our amazing planet and its unique ecosystems, the more credible the Bible’s descriptions become.
Scientists never would have guessed we’d find hot springs on the ocean floor ~

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
or walked in the recesses of the deep?” ~ Job 38:16
 
Only 40 years ago, J. B. Corliss found the first hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the sea near the Galapagos Islands. Nature recounts the anniversary of that surprise, and the concurrent discovery of complete ecosystems around the hot springs, thriving in total darkness.

 
Why Did Obama Import a Somali Muslim Congressional District for Ilhan Omar to Represent? ~ John Zmirak at The Stream isn’t afraid to point out the obvious ~

The Obama administration imitated the strategy of leftist governments in Europe. They too, imported distant Muslims to their countries, precisely in order to disrupt and divide the populace. And to liquidate what traces of a common Christian culture the nation might have.

 
The plan is clear. It applies wherever leftist globalists wield power. Use arguments of “compassion” as needed to get the Muslims across the border and safely resettled. Then use their presence in Italian schools to demand that the classrooms take down their crucifixes. Use their presence in Britain to suppress criticism of Islam as a potential “breach of the peace.”
 
Weaponize them as reliable voters for the radical left. Never mind how they differ on issues of sexual politics. What matters is liquidating the old, common Christian culture. The trans activists, the gay libertines, and the Islamists will settle their differences later. For now they’re united by a common goal, as the U.S. and the Soviets were up through 1945.

 
Dozens of K9 Officers Visit Terminally Ill Girl Who Loves Dogs ~ It was dream come true last week for a young Wisconsin girl ~

Emma Mertens, a seven-year-old diagnosed with a rare inoperable brain tumor in January, got to see dozens of real-life canines after police officers and K9 officers visited her home on Saturday morning.