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

 
Students protest pro-free speech display at UMich ~ When it comes to history and comparative worldviews, today’s average college student has been so mis-educated that this sort of insanity is becoming commonplace ~

A large mock-up of the Berlin Wall meant to remind students at the University of Michigan of the importance free speech was instead roundly criticized by many students, with some even declaring that the display constituted a “bias incident.”

[Steven Crowder interviewed some these woefully ignorant, First Amendment opponents at U of M last February.]
 
It gets worse though; Nissy Aya simply refuses to be educated ~
Columbia Student Claims To Be Traumatized By Reading About White People ~

A student at Columbia University is urging the school to inject more diversity into its required courses, claiming she suffered severe emotional trauma from reading too many books by and about white people.

 
Michael Moore’s Laughable Attempt To Shame Michigan And Open The Doors To His Non-Mansion ~ The hefty hypocrite lectures Americans on charity (Apparently RefuJihadis are welcome at his domicile). Perhaps Moore should read this article at The Federalist…
 

The Christmas Story Is About Christ, Not Obama’s Syrian Refugee Policy ~ Stop with the Mary-and-Joseph-were-refugees fairy tale already. For those who ~

… misunderstand the Bible because they think that half-way remembering that one time in second grade when they put on a sheep costume and did something Bible-related is the same thing as reading the Bible…

Hans Fiene deftly explains ~

The Christmas story is not a morality tale about hospitality

 
Don’t drive, you encourage terrorists ~ Since progressives absolutely refuse to believe that the Quran is the sole source of Islamic rage, may as well blame it on the root of all human ills: climate change.
 
Why Islamic terror in Mali bodes very ill for Europe ~ Yesterday’s attack (If it’s Friday, it must be time for another act of Islamist terror) ~

This attack is a clear signal to the French. ISIS attacks Paris, the French attack ISIS, and ISIS attacks Mali, which is largely controlled by French interests. The guests and staff at the Radisson probably speak French (as they do in many central African nations).
 
The message: it’s open season on the French. And soon it will be open season on the Germans, British, and the rest of the E.U.

French Icon Brigitte Bardot’s Blasphemy Against Muslims Is France tragically reaping what it’s sown? The country has been prosecuting Bardot under their intolerant “Hate Speech” laws for years now ~

In 1998, Bardot was again convicted for “decrying the loss of French identity and tradition due to the ‘multiplication of mosques while our church bells fall silent for want of priests.’”
 
In 2000, Bardot was again convicted for what she wrote in her book Pluto’s Square, which featured a chapter in which she grieved for “my country, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.”

Are they paying attention yet?
 
Obama certainly is not ➡ U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes ~ This feckless commander-in-chief should impeached – AND court-martialed ~

“This has been an absurdity from the beginning,” Keane (a retired four-star general) said in response to questions from Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.). “The president personally made a statement that has driven air power from the inception.”
 
“When we agreed we were going to do airpower and the military said, this is how it would work, he [Obama] said, ‘No, I do not want any civilian casualties,’” Keane explained. “And the response was, ‘But there’s always some civilian casualties. We have the best capability in the world to protect from civilians casualties.’”
 
However, Obama’s response was, “No, you don’t understand. I want no civilian casualties. Zero,’” Keane continued. “So that has driven our so-called rules of engagement to a degree we have never had in any previous air campaign from desert storm to the present.”

 
More Mind-Blowing Fraud By Yale University And Cheryl Katz ~ Outright fabrication about ice on Lake Superior ~

Yale University has a brand new article claiming that Lake Superior is overheating and its ice is disappearing.

Reality check:

Lake Superior summer water temperatures have plummeted about seven degrees F over the past four years, meaning they are just as cold now as they were in 1906 […]
 
Springtime Great Lakes ice cover has blown away all records the last two years.

 
Clinton Goes after Laugh Factory Comedians for Making Fun of Her ~ Whoa! The First Amendment is already under assault by the current administration. If Hillary’s elected, she’ll repeal it entirely.

 
Fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the USA ~ Leftists love to advance their totalitarian agenda with trumped-up stories. This is a handy website that keeps tabs on their phony “hate crime” narratives.
 
Ending on a happy note 🙂
6-Year-Old Zumba Star With Rare Genetic Condition Takes on Rockettes ~

Watch Audrey’s inspiring performance HERE.

In this latest example of judicial tyranny, as The Blaze reports ~

(A) Washington state judge has ruled that state lawmakers have a “constitutional obligation” to the youth of the state to take action on global warming.
 
Using some alarming language, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis R. Hill issued a ruling in a case involving eight Washington state youth in a case against the Washington Department of Ecology, seeking to require writing carbon emission rules to protect their generation.

 
Judge Hill decreed that ~

… current scientific evidence establishes that rapidly increasing global warming causes an unprecedented risk to the earth, including land, sea, the atmosphere and all living plants and creatures.
 
(the Petitioners’) very survival depends on the will of their elders to act now, decisively and unequivocally, to stem the tide of global warming by accelerating the reduction of emission of GHGs (Greenhouse Gases) before doing so becomes first too costly and then too late. The scientific evidence is clear that the current rates of reduction mandated by Washington law cannot achieve the GHG reductions necessary to protect our environment and to ensure the survival of an environment in which the Petitioners can grow to adulthood safely.

 
Gasp! Could we get more hyperbolic?!
 

It’s bad enough that Al Gore, corporately-funded scientists, and their minions of confused leftists buy into the faulty science behind the dangers of AGW, but a court of law should stick to the law, not venture into the enchanted land of wishful thinking where the world will magically run on fairy dust and unicorn farts.
 
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Just for the record, here are a few inconvenient truths about CO2 via the New American ~

In a 2009 Op-Ed in The Australian entitled “Vitriolic climate in academic hothouse,” Dr. Plimer wrote:
 
To demonise element number six in the periodic table is amusing. Why not promethium? Carbon dioxide is an odourless, colourless, harmless natural gas. It is plant food. Without carbon, there would be no life on Earth.
 
The original source of atmospheric CO2 is volcanoes. The Earth’s early atmosphere had a thousand times the CO2 of today’s atmosphere. This CO2 was recycled through rocks, life and the oceans.
 
Through time, this CO2 has been sequestered into plants, coal, petroleum, minerals and carbonate rocks, resulting in a decrease in atmospheric CO2.
 
The atmosphere now contains 800 billion tonnes of carbon as CO2. Soils and plants contain 2000 billion tonnes, oceans 39,000 billion tonnes and limestone 65,000,000 billion tonnes. The atmosphere contains only 0.001 per cent of the total carbon in the top few kilometres of the Earth.
 
Deeper in Earth, there are huge volumes of CO2 yet to be leaked into the atmosphere. So depleted is the atmosphere in CO2, that horticulturalists pump warm CO2 into glasshouses to accelerate plant growth.

 
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Related:
More Mind-Blowing Fraud From The Obama Administration and More Spectacular Fraud From The White House (the deceit is so ubiquitous that poor Steven Goddard at Real Science is running out of creative titles for his posts!) ~ (National Climate Assessment) Because if they didn’t lie they couldn’t push the AGW narrative and get on with the worldwide wealth redistribution plan.
Obama’s hot air won’t affect the climate no matter how hard he blows!

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

 
26 Police Injured In Clashes With Migrants At Calais ~ This was just five days before the Paris attacks ~

“In all honesty we just don’t know what the solution is to this crisis. There are 6,000 people living in this camp. We will do our job and do it with courage but the officers are very downbeat. They have 26 injured colleagues.” […]
 
Although clashes between police and migrants are a regular occurrence in Calais, Sunday night’s clashes were far worse than normal and are provoking fears that situation may deteriorate further.

How many more immigrants are they planning to welcome into France?

 
And what about the U.S.?
FBI Has Nearly 1,000 Active ISIS Probes Inside U.S. ~ Just a matter of time before Islamists attack here like they did last night in Paris?
 
Soros aids invasion of Christian Europe by Muslim refugees, says Hungary prime minister ~ I imagine the evil puppet-master is cackling with delight today.
 
20 Of My All Time Favorite Pieces Of Hate Mail ~ Just a reminder from John Hawkins at Townhall of how truly effective the progressive propaganda has been when it comes to creating mobs of mindlessly, angry drones.

 
Fiery Christian apologist draws standing room only crowd at campus appearance ~ Pleasantly surprised that Frank Turek was actually allowed to speak and not protested off the University of Michigan campus, which is typically a huge reality-free zone.
 

Export-Import Bank Rescued by Speaker Paul Ryan’s Highway Bill ~ Looks like it’s full speed ahead for RINO Ryan (Liberty Score with Conservative Review a big fat “F”); corporate welfare – another big victory for K-Street – another screw-job for the taxpayers This bill will…

… preemptively undermine the next Republican president from his ability to make substantial reforms to our inefficient federal transportation system.

Thanks Paul.

 
The Rise of Big Pot ~ Some inconvenient truths reveal the greedy intent behind the marijuana pushers

 
The Sacrifice of the Wicked… Germany and the West ~ More and more today’s headlines point to the rapid emergence of a world-wide ruling class. These power-hungry elitists seem indifferent to any appeals for sanity and moderation from the unwashed masses ~

I think that our Western Leaders are Nihilistic, they hate their own nations and have a sick kind of death wish. They have rejected the Sacrifice of Jesus and the Christian culture which it bequeathed, but now they are willing to sacrifice millions of their citizens toothed[sic] gods, such as the demonic Allah.

 
To: Scarlett Johansson, Sexing Up The Bible Won’t Defeat Christianity ~ Apparently Miss Scarlett will be reading portions of the Bible in a “porn voice” for an upcoming comedy album (from “Saturday Night Live” writer Mike O’Brien). Hans Fiene at the Federalist exposes her wacky worldview ~

Those who rejoice to belong to a fellowship that transcends space and time, tribes and cultures, and unites heaven and earth together won’t trade a life overflowing with eternal meaning for a life of sexual libertinism that epitomizes meaninglessness.

 
I’m encouraged to see that Alan Dershowitz, an old-school liberal, is starting to make more and more sense lately ~
1.) Dershowitz: Doctors Without Borders Really Is ‘Doctors Without Morals’ ~

International law experts are blasting Doctors Without Borders for forcibly removing civilian patients from the aid group’s Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital and replacing them with wounded Taliban fighters when the city fell to the rebel control in late September […]
 
The removal of civilian patients for soldiers violates a number of long-held provisions of the Geneva Convention and International Humanitarian Law. Both internationally-sanctioned protocols require that administrators to protect non-combatants who are patients at medical clinics and hospitals in war zones.

2.) Dershowitz: ‘The Fog of Fascism Is Descending Quickly Over Many American Universities’ ~

“These are the same people who claim they are seeking diversity. The last thing many of these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas. They may want superficial diversity, diversity of gender, diversity of color, but they don’t want diversity of ideas.”

Too bad Dershowitz’s fellow libs haven’t come to their senses…
 
Dems search for fountain of youth ~ Clinton, Sanders, Warren – not to mention Pelosi, Reid, Biden – the Geriatric Party! Unfortunately in the Dem’s case, age ≠ wisdom.

 
One Of The Country’s Biggest Urban Farms Will Be Built In Detroit ~ Sometimes there’s actually good news from the Motor City 🙂 ~

Detroit’s urban farming possibilities aren’t a secret; there is nowhere else in the country with an infrastructure as big as Detroit’s that contains so much city-owned or delinquent land. Farmers are stepping in from all over the place; the planners behind one project hope to eventually create the world’s largest urban farm. But Detroit’s mayor just found announced an even newer and bigger project: a $15 million, 60-acre urban farm.

Mass. woman wins fight to wear colander in driver’s license by citing ‘pastafarian’ religion ~ Just when you think things can’t get much crazier…