Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
VIDEO: Syrian Woman Rips Into McCain… McCain’s Response: Syrian Rebels Are “Moderates” ~ Excellent, impassioned plea from a Syrian Christian, begging the feckless AZ senator to rethink his hawkish position on the Assad regime. McCain – unprincipled, professional politician that he is – remains unaffected (and no doubt wishing he had his iPhone poker game handy.)
Senator Feinstein to Homeland Security: Stop Enforcing Immigration Law ~ No big deal. This has been the unofficial policy of the Obama administration for five years anyway. Just ask the ICE agents.
WaPo: DoJ trying to trap poor, black kids in failing schools ~ As children in Louisiana head back to school, even the Washington Post is dumbfounded by the hypocrisy of the Obama Justice Department ~
NINE OF 10 Louisiana children who receive vouchers to attend private schools are black. All are poor and, if not for the state assistance, would be consigned to low-performing or failing schools with little chance of learning the skills they will need to succeed as adults. So it’s bewildering, if not downright perverse, for the Obama administration to use the banner of civil rights to bring a misguided (anti-voucher) suit that would block these disadvantaged students from getting the better educational opportunities they are due.
Thomas Sowell also mentions DOJ’s interference in the LA school voucher program in Unintended Consequences, an article about the disruptive effect the ideological crusaders policies have had on U.S. the housing market.
New San Antonio Decree: Politicians Will Lose Jobs If They Speak Against Homosexuals ~ Intolerance on the march -even in Texas. Christians may be barred from office, city employment, or contracts under new San Antonio LGBT law.
And if you just can’t get with the program, you’ll need to be “rehabilitated.” ~ Being Re-educated by Big Brother. Scary stuff people…
Stop Denying Climate Science and ACT! (Before People Realize it’s a Scam) ~ It’s one of the Left’s favorite strategies; hurry up and jam something through before the truth can get out (Obamacare, Amnesty, Carbon taxes, lobbing missile s at Syria).
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~ Mark Twain, (attributed)
Man admits giving HIV to his partner and exposing at least 300 more after he hid his infected status ~ “HIViper!”
Middle East up-date – while the msm is distracting us with Syria ~
Disaster at Malawi museum: Egypt loses hundreds of artifacts in one day
The museum’s assistant director says;
…a mob attacked and looted the building, during a nationwide crackdown on Islamist protesters.
(He) describes the scene as a “battlefield,” with automatic fire echoing from all sides so that “we did not know where they were coming from or who was firing”.
After several hours, nearly all of the 1,089 museum pieces had been stolen or destroyed, says Tahami.
[The Mallawi Museum housed hundreds of antiquities, statuettes, gold and jewels told the history of Egypt, from pharaonic times to the Muslim caliphs, from the Omayyad dynasty in the 7th century to the Fatimids in the 12th, and touching on Greek and Roman antiquities.]
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U.S. Government Muted on Pastor Imprisoned in Iran Christian pastor ~ Saeed Abedini has been in an Iranian prison for almost a year. He was given an 8 year sentence for “endangering national security, but supporters say he was there to open an orphanage—with the permission of the Iranian government.”
Pastor Saeed Abedini’s wife asks for prayer support as her husband remains unjustly imprisoned in Iran.
