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

 
Students demand that university cancel Pence event ~ Today’s oh-so-tolerant young leftists. These naive kids actually claim to be Christian (The vice president is an evangelical who holds to traditional Christian values) ~

The petition declares that Pence’s political views are at odds with Christian values, accusing him of outright bigotry against “the working and poor classes,” the “LGBTQI+ community,” immigrants, and the black community.

 
Pentagon sending $200 million in nonlethal aid to Ukraine in move expected to rile Moscow ~ Excellent. And not exactly a move that will make Putin happy ~

The American military hardware being shipped to Ukraine includes “secure communications, military mobility, night vision, and military medical treatment, according to Maj. Sheryll Klinkel, a Pentagon spokesperson.
 
“This reaffirms the longstanding defense relationship between the United States and Ukraine and brings the total U.S. security sector assistance to Ukraine to more than $1 billion since 2014,” Klinkel said in a statement […]
 
Secretary of Defense James Mattis is also asking that Congress sign a waiver that would allow the U.S. to sell weapons to countries that also purchase arms from Russia. The idea is to make sure U.S. sanctions don’t push allies into the arms of Russia.
 
“Russia should suffer consequences for its aggressive, destabilizing behavior and its illegal occupation of Ukraine,” Mattis said in statment issued by the Pentagon.

 
Walls Close In On Sen. Bob Menendez, Could Be Unseated By GOP Challenger ~ Is New Jersey actually fed up with shady Bob’s antics? ~

New Jersey’s Democratic Senator, Bob Menendez, who walked away from a corruption indictment on a mistrial, may not be re-elected. According to a recent poll, the senator’s chances at keeping his seat in the upcoming mid-term have disintegrated.

 
New HHS Documents Reveal that ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ Processed During Obama Years Included Violent Criminals, Drug Smugglers, and Human Traffickers ~

“The Obama administration presided over a humanitarian and public safety nightmare in its handling of ‘unaccompanied alien children,’” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The incident reports also support the Trump administration’s contention that the UAC crisis, which continues, includes murderers, rapists, drug smugglers and human traffickers being routinely allowed into the United States.”

 
China: Xinjiang’s children in orphanages as their parents held in re-education camps ~ Where’s the outcry for these kids? Not to mention their parents?

(A)n ongoing Chinese government crackdown on its Uyghur-people in Xinjiang province is tearing both Muslim and Christian families and communities apart […]
 
Hundreds of thousands – reports say it might be over a million – Uyghur and Kazakh men have been rounded up and taken to ‘re-education Centres’, also known as “study centres” or “mind-transformation centres”, where they are detained for weeks or even months […]
 
The Chinese government has denied the existence of the camps. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told Reuters in April: “Everyone can see that people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang live and work in peace and contentment, and enjoy peaceful and progressing lives.”

 
Do Immigrants Have a Human Right to Enter the US? How About Your Home? ~ OK, let’s try a little critical thinking here – courtesy of Dennis Teti at The Stream ~

Everyone knows that homeowners have the right to decide who may come into their (private) homes. In other words, no one has a “human right” to enter your house uninvited. Nor appeal to a police officer or a judge to let you in. Nor to consume or destroy your property — even if he pays you back with interest. An uninvited stranger who breaks and lives in your home violates justice, the natural law. If the owner asks the stranger in, it’s only because she judges it’s in the interest of her household.
 
The owner might deny entry fearing the stranger will harm her kids or assault her sick mother. Or the owner might let him in to model charity, or admire the stranger’s physical features or ideas, his skin color or religious beliefs. The stranger can’t claim a right. He can only ask. There’s only one human right in play: the owner’s right to close or open her door.

 
LGBTQ Totalitarianism in Boston: The Destruction of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade ~ The Gaystapo has officially co-opted the annual event ~

The shocking evolution of the parade from a celebration of Irish Catholic heritage to an overtly LGBTQ event should be a warning to those who advocate “inclusion” within their institutions. The infusion of LGBTQ sexuality will inevitably upend tried and true traditions and moral standards. We see this happening most clearly in our schools and churches.

 
FIFA World Cup and Climate Change: Shocking Exits and Shocking Retentions ~ Climate alarmists frequently use International sporting events as an opportunity to promote their climate change agenda, claiming that the huge gatherings release massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Vijay Jayaraj points out their faux science ~

Yet in the real world, as opposed to the make-believe world of computer models, carbon dioxide emissions from human activity failed to cause any significant rise in temperatures during the last 60 years.
 
It’s not that there’s been no warming. There has been. It’s that all the warming can be explained by variations in three natural causes: volcanic eruptions, energy from the sun, and ocean currents, especially the El Niño/La Niña Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

John Brennan Misses Communist Russia ~ Former CIA director is a national disgrace! ~

John Brennan, who supported the Soviet-controlled American Communist Party, meets the textbook definition of a useful idiot for the Russians. At the height of the Cold War, he was rooting for the Reds, casting his vote in 1976 for Gus Hall, the American Communist Party’s presidential candidate. If anyone is adept at serving as a dupe for the Russians, it is John Brennan. To paraphrase John Kerry, he was for them before he was against them.

 
Cattle as Conservationists ~ Good stewardship. Interesting article that explains how proper management of grazing lands is ecologically sound ~

In truth, one of the biggest long-term challenges facing this country is maintaining its food security as global population growth expands the markets for food exports across Asia, Latin America and elsewhere. It’s great that U.S. agriculture is helping feed the world, but not only must we as a nation maintain our domestic food chain, we must maintain the land needed to produce the crops needed to maintain that production chain, even if we’re talking about alt-meat products grown in what amounts to giant test tubes […]
 
I’m quoting from the Fish and Wildlife Service report: “Grazing benefits endangered wildlife, specifically by reducing the dominance of non-native grasses that suck up water and shorten the seasonal lifespan of pool breeding habitats.”

 
Swedish dental hygenist fired for revealing that 80% of ‘child migrants’ are actually adults ~ “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~ G. Orwell ~

Mr Bernt Herlitz shared this information with an immigration officer, who told him to file a report detailing his findings. However, as a result of Mr Herlitz exposing these lies, his employer decided to fire and fine him, under the dubious accusation of breaking “confidentiality”.

 
‘It Was a Miracle!’ Thai Soccer Players Relive Daring Rescue from Flooded Cave ~ CBN News shares some of the names and details behind the sensation headlines (w/ video)

 
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My favorite tweet of the week ~
After soccer World Cup final; a stark contrast in cultures ~

Croatia lose, their fans remain dignified & enjoy the moment.
Multicultural France win, they riot & loot shops. pic.twitter.com/1FkQFwZhVQ

— Mark Collett (@MarkACollett) July 16, 2018

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

Christian Doctor Prohibited From Serving as Disability Assessor for Declining to Refer to Patients by Gender Identity ~ Telling the truth is now longer allowed in the U.K. ~

Dr. David Mackereth, 55, has worked as an emergency room doctor for the National Health Service (NHS) for 26 years, and recently sought to serve as a disability assessor for the DWP. His job would have entailed interviewing those who desired to obtain disability benefits and submitting reports about their health […]
 
“I don’t think I should be compelled to use a specific pronoun,” he told The Daily Mail. “I am not setting out to upset anyone, but if upsetting someone can lead to doctors being sacked, then as a society, we have to examine where we are going.”
 
“Firstly, we are not allowed to say what we believe. Secondly, as my case shows, we are not allowed to think what we believe. Finally, we are not allowed to defend what we believe,” Mackereth lamented.

 
Catholic Bishop: Europe Migrant Crisis ‘Orchestrated’ by International Powers ~ Bishop Athanasius Schneider (Astana, Kazakhstan) is one of the few fearless bishops left in the church ~

(T)he current migrant crisis “represents a plan orchestrated and prepared for a long time by international powers to radically alter the Christian and national identity of the peoples of Europe.”
 
To achieve their objectives, these powers abuse “the true concept of humanism and even the Christian commandment of charity,” Schneider said, exploiting the moral authority of the church for anti-Christian purposes.

Meanwhile, the hijrah rolls on ~ British report: 700,000 migrants piling up in Libya waiting for their chance to jump to Europe ~

So where are these impoverished people from all over Africa and the Middle East (Central America too!) getting gobs of cash to pay traffickers?
 
Where are the investigators trying to find that answer because that answer, whatever it is, could potentially bring down the whole scam.

 
The feds didn’t save the long-nosed bat, hummingbird feeders did! ~ It takes a ton of tenacity to get the government to face reality when it comes to the Endangered Species List. But happily in this case, persistence paid off –

(B)ecause endangered species enforcement threatened important economic activities (especially ranching, but also tequila production), several citizen groups were organized to monitor hummingbird feeders at night. In turn, that created an opportunity to capture and tag bats, so that researchers could find out where they were roosting. That led to the discovery of many more roosting sites, and a conclusion that there were far more bats than originally thought.

Students for Justice in Palestine Claims ‘Progress Impossible So Long as Israel Exists’ ~ This was at the University of California, Davis last week 😯 So much for coexistence ~

“The goal of Palestinian resistance is not to establish ‘love’ with those who are responsible for the suffering of the Palestinian people,” the group said in an article published by the student paper California Aggie.
 
Rather, the essay said, “it is to completely dismantle those forces at play.”

Police Chiefs Say Canada Is Not Ready For Pot-Impaired Drivers ~ Who is? Marijuana will be legal in Canada in October ~

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police… does not believe it can possibly achieve its objective of seeing 2,000 police officers trained to detect drivers under the influence of cannabis — a drug that is not detected in the bloodstream but in the fatty tissues.

 
Mark Levin: Democrats don’t want a Supreme Court — they want a ‘politburo’ to impose their agenda ~ SCOTUS’ job is to determine whether laws are constitutional. Period. ~

“The key is to pick a constitutionalist,” Levin said. “Not a leftist, not a rightist — a constitutionalist. And you assume and hope that a constitutionalist will do the right thing … whatever the issue is.”

Nigeria’s Fulani Jihadis Grow Deadlier than Boko Haram ~ These murdering savages need to be stopped!

The group carried out massacres across nearly a dozen villages in Nigeria’s Christian-majority Plateau state over the weekend of June 23-24, killing over 200. The estimated number of farmers who have been killed by Fulani terrorists so far this year varies between 1,750 and 6,000, including women and children.

 
Kyle Kashuv, Parkland Survivor Turned Conservative Activist, on Gun Rights and Free Speech ~ The mainstreams can’t get enough of young gun-banner David Hogg; they’re not too interested in his classmate’s views ~

“I’ve had personal experience with this,” said Kashuv. “I mean, people have completely tried to shun me and silence me on my high school campus. It’s hard for conservatives to voice their support for the Second Amendment, in general and at Douglas, and I see how important it is to make sure we have free speech.”

 
Dems Who Introduced ‘Abolish ICE’ Bill Now Say They’ll Vote Against It ~ Calling out radical leftists’ hyperbole seem to work -the Right needs to do it more often!

Several of the (Republican) lawmakers who introduced the bill now say they will vote “no” if it comes up for a vote. In truth, the proposal to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was never serious and was simply an exercise in tossing raw meat to their rabid, far-left base.
 
But Republicans have called them out for their political stupidity and they are backtracking as fast as they can.

 
Maine Governor Vetoes Ban On Therapy For Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction ~ Sanity reigns, at least temporarily…

Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage defied LGBT activists by vetoing a bill that would have banned therapists from counseling people with unwanted same-sex attraction, arguing it was “too broad.”
 
The Left defines it as “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy,” but that’s a smear. All such therapy does is provide an avenue for men and women who do not wish to have same-sex attraction to seek the treatment they desire. In an era where words like “choice” are thrown around in support of any cause, bans on such therapies are clearly an affront to people’s free choice.

 
The all time record high temperatures for Los Angeles are the result of a faulty weather stations and should be disqualified ~ Last week even Bette Midler was whining about the heat in LA. Global warming of course — except it’s not, as Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?) explains ~

Every “all time high” reported by the LA Times is from a station compromised by heat sources and heat sinks. In my opinion, the data from these stations is worthless.

 
Hey Bette! Newsflash ~ ‘Father of Global Warming’ Scientist Finally Admits Theory Is Wrong ~

According to (former NASA scientist, James Hansen), Al Gore took the data provided in a “worst-case scenario” and intentionally twisted it, rebranding it as “Global Warming,” making tens of millions of dollars in the process.
 
The model was titled “Scenario B” and was one of many provided to Congress by Hansen, however it left out significant factors meaning it didn’t reflect real-world conditions. This didn’t stop Al Gore and climate alarmists using the data to mislead millions of people all over the world.
 
However a new study that compares real-world data to the original Scenario B model — finding no correlation — has received Hansen’s backing, with the “Father of global warming” admitting he is “devastated” by the way his data has been used by climate alarmists.

 
Trump White House Has Smaller Staff, Spends Less on Salaries Than Obama White House ~ We call this good stewardship, a concept that’s foreign to most leftists ~

“Although the White House personnel budget is an infinitesimal part of the $3.9 trillion federal budget, it is an important forecasting indicator showing Trump’s deep commitment to cut the size, scope and power of the federal government and reign in waste,” wrote Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open the Books, in an op-ed for Forbes.
 
As of June 30, 2018, the White House currently employs 374 people, three fewer than were employed in 2017. It’s also significantly lower than the 469 that were employed in 2010 by then President Barack Obama.