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

 
New York Times Baffled by Massive Rise in Murder Rate it Caused ~ The Left actively promotes division and animosity and feigns ignorance when division and animosity result. Mayor DeBlasio goes squishy on criminals; crime rises. Duh.

 
Man-splaining Is No Excuse For Invading Girls’ Locker Rooms ~ In an emperor’s new clothes moment, last Monday 150 girls at Missouri High School righteously walked out of classes to protest a young male’s invasion of their locker room. “Lila Perry,” genetically a male, insists he’s a woman and isn’t satisfied with the separate facilities the school provided for him ~

I thought, as Howard Zinn says, dissent was the highest form of patriotism? The tide has already turned on that front, but if Americans aren’t comfortable with biological males in their daughters’ locker rooms, it behooves us to call a spade a spade—or, in this case, call a boy a boy.

 
Kudos to these young women. We’ve got to start pushing back against this lunacy…

College students in Memphis have “evolved” beyond gender with this new pronoun… ~ The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, firmly establishing it’s campus as yet another reality-free zone, is banning gendered pronouns ~

According to the university, students and staff are being asked to ditch “he” and “she” to make the campus more gender-neutral.

 
Wondering if this might be part of the problem ➡ Study: Pot Smoking on College Campuses at 35-Year High
 
‘Pink Viagra’: Helping women? Or marketing a disease? ~ If God had created us to run around chasing toddlers all day long when we’re 70 years old, “declining libido” might be a legitimate medical concern for seniors. Instead, it’s just an inadequacy-producing, trumped-up phenomenon invented by Big Pharma ~

Creating diseases to sell drugs is great business. Whether or not it helps people to live happily, in control of their moral and emotional lives, is another matter altogether.

 
Why Walmart Is Reducing Worker Hours, After Raising the Minimum Wage — and Other Lessons in Reality ~ Much as progressives might wish it so, we really can’t live consequence-free.

 
Chris Christie: We shouldn’t let Christian businesses opt out of gay ceremonies ~ When it comes to social issues, Christie is spineless and/or clueless. He may as well run as a Democrat.

 
Rep. Mark Meadows Aims to Banish John Boehner: ‘Having the People at My Back Is Better than Having D.C. in My Pocket’ ~

The tipping point for Meadows came down to one email from a constituent he described as a “country club Republican.” He sent Meadows an email saying, “We got Benghazi, we got the IRS, we got missing emails, we got immigration, all of these things going on and I thought we won in November. And here we are still fighting it. I am one ticked off American.”

Welcome to the Tea Party Club!
 
Quebec begins mandatory sex ed teaching 5-year-olds about masturbation, genitalia, and homosexuality ~ Outrageous. (But this year Canada, next year America….) Clearing the way for the acceptance of pedophilia? Monic Tremblay of the Quebec organization Parent Alerte wants to know ~

“Will this actually protect children from sexual aggressors, as the curriculum claims, or will it turn children into sexual aggressors?” she said in a statement to LifeSiteNews.
 
Tremblay said that, by “sexualizing” children and teaching them how to “consent” to sexual practices, the program will have the effect of making children available to an adult sexual predators.

 
California governor says people who don’t buy into climate change agenda are genetically inferior ‘troglodytes’ ~ 🙄 This is especially amusing if one recalls Governor Moonbeam’s plan to recycle urine which he proposed earlier this year.

 
Archaeologists May Have Found The Burial Site Of St. Matthew ~ Always fascinated by these discoveries confirming God’s word ~

Siberian archaeologists discovered a 2,500-year-old settlement now underwater in a Kyrgyzstan lake, which may be where Jesus’ disciple Matthew was finally buried.
 
University divers dug up 200 artifacts from the ancient ruin 23 meters below the northeastern surface of Lake Issyk-Kul, reported The Siberian Times. One piece of a large ceramic pot the divers lifted out of the water lends support to a theory that Matthew’s burial site is nearby.

Don’t tell ISIS.

 
And… my favorite headline of the week ~ Trek to Discover Truth About Yeti Foiled by Taliban

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

 
British MI-5 Files Reveal Another Cold War Soviet Agent ~ Another communist who claimed to be a victim of “McCarthyism” was exactly the traitor he was believed to be. It’s taken over half a century, but the truth is gradually coming out. McCarthy may have been overzealous but he wasn’t exaggerating the threat of communism.

 
Apple and Google Pour Billions Down a Green Drain ~ If Apple wasn’t buying into the phony global warming scam, your iphone would be a whole lot cheaper. Instead, both Apple and Google are spending billions to combat an imaginary foe ~

There is no empirical evidence that human emissions have a measureable influence on Earth’s climate. All of the green measures by global business will have a negligible effect on global temperatures.

 
Speaking of the internet leviathan ~ How Google Can Rig Everything in Washington, D.C. – and Around the World ~ Are we trapped in a Google matrix? It’s easy to see how the low-info crowd can get sucked into digital manipulation. Disconcerting to say the least…

 
The IKEA Murders: Sweden in Crisis ~ Average Swedes are fearful of losing their country to radical Islam; their elites are in denial or oblivious ~

Fear has now struck the Swedes. Even those who had routinely brand critics of immigration and multiculturalism racist, were shaken to the core. Questions flooded the social media: Who are these people that are let into Sweden? How many of them are not innocent victims of war, but in fact war criminals and other criminals, hiding among the refugees? And should we pay billions in taxes to support and shelter citizens of other countries, while some of them try to kill us?
 
The fact that the police refuse to deny the persistent rumor that one of the IKEA victims was beheaded, only adds fuel to the fear.

 
The Reason You Haven’t Heard More About The 177 Bikers Arrested In Waco ~ Not quite sure what to believe about this tragedy, but the lack of transparency on the part of law enforcement certainly isn’t helping.

The Bikers’ Point of View ~ From grief to frustration, bikers now have their own theories about what happened at the Waco Twin Peaks shooting. And occurrences like this just create more suspicion and distrust ~

(A) bomb threat forced about 75 bikers and supporters to disperse from in front of the McLennan County courthouse Saturday morning. The bikers had organized a memorial for the nine people killed at the Twin Peaks shooting in Waco three months ago, but the gathering was also supposed to serve as something of a rally for the 177 bikers arrested that day. But now, thanks to a suspicious cooler and a suitcase, the group dissolved.

(If these were #BlackLives instead of #BikerLives there would be riots in Waco by now.
 

Irony alert: Liberals furious over Bruce Jenner Halloween costumes ~ Proving yet again that leftists have no sense of humor ~

Exit question: If a boy wearing a Bruce Jenner Halloween costume is denied the right to enter a girl’s bathroom, will he have a viable lawsuit?

 
Two suicides are linked to Ashley Madison leak: Texas police chief takes his own life just days after his email is leaked in cheating website hack . Sad, but the wages of sin…
Of course some people aren’t particularly burdened with a conscience ~ Joe Biden’s Son Gets Caught with Ashley Madison Account: Claims America’s Enemies Created the Account ~ The more you lie, the easier it gets.
 
It Depends on What the Meaning of ‘Crazies’ Is ~ Rather than have a rational debate about his administration’s disastrous deal with Iran, our classy president chooses to call opponents names ~

He wants to disarm law-abiding Americans but entrust the Iranian Islamist theocracy to police itself on nuclear arms and subsidize its funding of global terrorism. But we’re the “crazies” […]
 
It gets old pointing out that Obama uses Saul Alinsky tactics to demonize conservatives and avoid defending his positions, but it’s true.
 
Instead of explaining why we’re wrong, he calls us nuts

These guys aren’t ~
Retired generals and admirals urge Congress to reject Iran nuclear deal ~ In stark contrast to the three dozen retired senior military officers who support the agreement, a group of nearly 200 retired brass is adamantly opposed ~

Many of the signatories served in the White House, under Democratic administrations as well as Republican. The only thing they appear to have in common is that they consider the Iran nuclear deal a threat to U.S. interests in the region and its own national security.

John Boehner Calls Ted Cruz A ‘Jackass’ At Fundraiser ~ Another class act, Boehner likes to call people names too, proving once more why he needs to be relieved of his speaker duties.

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

Reality TV watching lowers IQ, increase rudeness ~ Wow – there’s a shocking revelation.

 
Planned Parenthood Recognizes 16 Media Journalists with Awards Amid Aborted Baby Organ Trafficking Videos ~

In the midst of the #PPsellsBabyParts scandal the organization rewards their most loyal propagandists ~

Planned Parenthood celebrated Tuesday night as the nation’s largest abortion provider recognized 16 journalists by bestowing upon them the coveted “Maggie Awards for Media Excellence,” named after the organization’s founder and eugenicist Margaret Sanger.

Willful blindness ~ MSM Ignores P.Parenthood Videos, Accepts Awards

 
Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? Empty Theory or Troubling Trend ~ I’m going with option B. They’re traveling the same path of lower standards that everyone else is following.

 
Head of EPA: Obama’s Clean Power Plan will hit low-income minorities hardest, but they’ll get ‘incredible savings’ by 2030 ~ Gee, isn’t that swell?
And while they’re at it ~ The Agency That Contaminated the Animas River is About to Start Regulating Water That May be in Your Backyard

 
In this week’s disturbing cultural trends category ~
Britain’s most popular baby boy’s name? Muhammad, survey claims ~ Well Britain is part of Eurabia after all…
Wonder if ½ of these little Muhammads will grow up to be gender-confused also ~
Half of young Brits say they are ‘not exclusively heterosexual’ with a quarter of all UK adults saying they are gay or bisexual ~ Born that way? Hardly. Socially inculcated that way.

 
Cruz Laughs at Reporter on Iran Deal ~ Ted Cruz had a great response to the question of why he opposed the Iran deal ~

“The single greatest national security threat facing America is the threat of a nuclear Iran. If this deal goes through, three things will happen. Number one, the Obama Administration will be world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism. Billions of dollars will flow to jihadists who will use that money to try and murder Americans. Number two, this deal leaves four American hostages languishing in Iran including Pastor Saeed Abedini an American citizen sentenced to 8 years in prison for preaching the Gospel. But number three, most dangerously, this deal only accelerates Iran’s acquiring a nuclear weapon.”

 
The Army is broken ~ from a retired Army major general, writing in the Washington Post ~

To be sure, the nation always reduces its military as wars wind down. Other services suffer reductions and shortages. But only the Army breaks. Someone please tell those of us who served why the service that does virtually all the dying and killing in war is the one least rewarded.

And female Rangers aren’t going to help ~ Co-Ed Combat Tests Hazardous to Women’s Health

 
How US Sugar Policies Just Helped America Lose 600 Jobs ~ Oreo cookie manufacturing moves to Mexico thanks to high U.S. tariffs on imported sugar.
 
New Report: Massive Immigration Surge from Mexico ~

Over the past year alone (second quarter of 2014 through second quarter of 2015), the immigration population has grown by 1.7 million. Seventy-one percent of this growth has come from Latin America (1.2 million) and 44% (740,000) from Mexico alone.

Donald Trump is right about deportation; we can’t afford to keep them here! ~ STONEWALLED: Feds Hide Fiscal Details About Vast Operation To Resettle Illegal Alien Minors
 
5 Lessons From the Hacking of an Adultery Website ~ Dr. Michael Brown explains what the release of millions Ashley Madison subscribers’ names can teach us ~

Proverbs 6:27-29 & 32-33 ~

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her will not be innocent. … But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul. A wound and dishonor will he get, and his reproach will not be wiped away.