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

Thousands in Four Countries Participate in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ Monday ~ Parents are finally fighting back against the pornography being pushed on their kids in the name of sex education (and at the expense of traditional subjects; reading, writing, math and history) ~

Sex ed today across our country is not the sex ed of generations past. Children are being taught how to engage in anal and oral sex, masturbate, pleasure others, how to have orgasms, how to question their gender, and even how to get to the local birth control/abortion clinic via bus route without parents knowing about it […]
 
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are working in concert to push graphic Sex Education and promotion of abortion in public schools across our nation, and parents don’t even know about it.

 
Venezuela: 120 Percent Increase in Political Prisoners Under Maduro Regime ~ Of course. Every good little Marxist tyrant always jails the opposition ~

There are currently 233 political prisoners across Venezuela, mainly on crimes of “treason,” instigating anti-government protests, or the alleged use of violence or intimidation against the country’s security forces. This is a 120-percent increase from this time last year, where there were around 100 people imprisoned […]
 
Nearly all of those imprisoned are dissidents against the Maduro regime, which has over the past year transformed the country into a totalitarian dictatorship where political dissent is outlawed.
 
Venezuelan political prisoners have previously testified to the use of torturous methods by prison authorities, which include the use of electroshock, starvation, and nude humiliation.

 
And speaking of socialists ~ Carter Center sued for providing support to Hamas, defrauding taxpayers ~

The Zionist Advocacy Center, which filed the recently unsealed suit in 2015, alleges the Carter Center received more than $30 million in taxpayer grants while violating federal statutes barring it from using the cash to provide material support to terror groups.
 
The plaintiffs maintain the Carter Center has violated the law by hosting designated terrorists at is facilities, as well as by providing various forms of assistance to the Palestinian terror group Hamas and other known terror entities, according to recently unsealed court documents […]
 
Former President Carter’s ongoing and well-documented interactions with Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are tantamount to material support for terror groups, the suit alleges citing evidence Carter hosted these officials at his Center’s offices.

Unfortunately, in a disturbing development, Trump’s DOJ is moving to to have the case dismissed on the grounds it’s too expensive to prosecute(?!) So the rule-of-law only applies if it’s cost-effective? [Check out Adam Kredo’s whole article at the Washington Free Beacon.]
 

Voters Overwhelmingly Support Draining The Swamp ~ You wouldn’t know it by listening to the mainstreams, but we’re not alone ~

According to the Listening Project poll, 60 percent of all voters and 74 percent of Republicans believe it is important to drain “the Swamp.” Only 6 percent of voters and 5 percent of Republicans believe draining the Swamp is unimportant […]
 
Most people, including moderates and liberals, believe lobbyists, GOP members and bureaucrats are the ones most to blame for keeping the Swamp alive. Trump voters and conservatives place the most blame with the media, Democrat leadership and lobbyists.

I’d say all of the above!
 
Return of the feckless Chick-fil-A-phobes ~ Michelle Malkin discusses the recent outbreak of Chick-fil-A-phobia in NYC ~

Welcome to Social Justice 101, where discriminating against Christian-owned business in the name of opposing discrimination is the definition of tolerance […]
 
Chick-fil-A’s corporate mission to “glorify God” and “enrich the lives of everyone we touch” leaves (Daniel Piepenbring at The New Yorker) scribe erminally heartsick about the “ulterior motive” of its restaurant execs. So do the founding family’s commitments to faithful marriages, strong families, Sundays off and the highest standards of character for their employees.

 
Drones Are High-Tech Marvels, but Congress Needs to Address the Threats They Pose ~ Not that I trust congress to get much right these days, but Paul Fredrick and David Inserra do have a point. I can certainly imagine a determined jihadi using drones to deliver an IED or two.

Drug Users Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station ~ So sad. How much more s**t will the City by the Bay tolerate?

AN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Shocking video is calling attention to what’s going on in one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area: drug users blatantly shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by, others slumped along filthy corridors.

 
Britain and Alfie Evans show how socialism destroys human dignity ~ The UK government has crushed individual sovereignty ~

The evolutionary genesis of this mindset over the past 150 years is the gradual and inexorable erosion in respect for the uniqueness of each human life, a basic tenet of Judeo-Christian teachings. Thus, Marxist-socialist theory is unbending in its rejection and suppression of organized religion and belief in a supreme being.
 
The increasingly agnostic and secular societies of Europe are not only willfully choosing to ignore the existence of God, but rejecting the moral and behavioral guidelines established by Judeo-Christian teachings.

 
And eventually, socialism destroys the human soul ~ Through Bloodied Teeth, Alfie Evans’ Dad Says He Now Loves Big Brother ~ Broken. ~

Those of us shocked to see this sick, pornographic abuse of parental rights and human dignity in the nation of Magna Carta ought to remember: George Orwell based his nightmare of tyranny on trends he saw in Britain. His villains are British villains. Likewise when C.S. Lewis wrote That Hideous Strength, he wasn’t depicting the cruelties of German Nazis or Soviet commissars. He drew on the petty tyrants he met in faculty lounges at Cambridge. Tolkien ended The Lord of the Rings with the “scouring of the Shire.” It showed the thuggish side that can emerge when Englishmen get drunk on wicked ideas.

 
Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists ~ Huh. Imagine that ~

The study questioning the future intensity of climate change was carried out by American climatologist Judith Curry and UK mathematician Nick Lewis.
 
It is based on analysing the warming effect of greenhouse gases and other drivers of climate change, from the mid 19th century until 2016.
 
It forecast that future warming will be between 30 per cent and 45 per cent lower than suggested by simulations carried out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel one Climate Change.

 
Kanye Exposes Liberals and Progressives as the New Reactionaries ~ Pop culture celeb dares to venture off the Leftist plantation, mayhem enuses ~

What these attacks on Kanye demonstrate in bold face is what has lurked beneath the surface for a long time — liberals and progressives are the reactionaries of our time.
 
It is also a further demonstration of a near complete lack of intellectual curiosity or emotional imagination, an inability to grasp the “remote” possibility that a highly intelligent black man could possibly think differently from them. Something must be wrong with him. (Could anything possibly be wrong with them? Nah!)

 
Friday relief from bad news: Trump’s “Hispanic” doppelgänger ~ Humor break 😀 ~

The world’s social media is all abuzz about someone who looks a whole lot like Donald Trump.
 
The funny twist in this story is that the doppelgänger is a woman in Galicia, Spain.

 
 
 
 
My Favorite Tweet of the Week ~

Dear Barack Obama:

We made a mistake. Please return your prize to:

The Nobel Foundation
Sturegatan 14
SE-102 45 Stockholm
Sweden

Peace on the Korean Peninsula and a historic meeting between North and South Korea makes your prize look silly.

Sorry,
Nobel Committee#KoreaSummit

— thebradfordfile™ (@thebradfordfile) April 27, 2018

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

 
New National Test Scores Show Betsy DeVos Was Right About Public Schools ~
Devos was castigated by the Left for stating the obvious; more money is not the answer ~

Forty-nine out of 50 states were stagnant on the 2017 report card, and achievement gaps persist. Historically, federal education spending has been appropriated to close gaps, yet this spending — more than $2 trillion in inflation-adjusted spending at the federal level alone since 1965 — has utterly failed to achieve that goal.

 
How To Destroy Western Civilization Without Spilling Your Latte ~ Exposing the wild delusion that smashing the foundations of our Judeo-Christian heritage will lead to blissful utopia ~

The only reason Western Civilization survived the fall of Rome was Christianity. All that Classical philosophy and literature would have vanished forever if monks hadn’t thought it important enough to recopy the books by hand. And to do it over and over and over again as the paper decayed. Even the books that got preserved in Islamic countries mostly were recopied by Christian minorities there.
 
Take away the Christians, and the pagan tribes that overran the West would have used those old scrolls in the privy. Likewise, for most of Western history, thoughts of ethics and the common good have come to the masses through their churches.

‘MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME’: Hillary, DNC Funneled $84 Million Through State Parties To Avoid Campaign Finance Laws, Lawsuit Claims ~ Committee to Defend the President (CDP – a political action committee that used to be called Stop Hillary PAC) is suing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) claiming that complaints against the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the DNC have been ignored They’re alleging that ~

… the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) sent millions of dollars in donations it received into a money laundering scheme to skirt campaign finance laws.

Is the FEC yet another bureaucracy that’s been politicized? It sure looks that way ~

“The Clinton machine has escaped accountability for its illegal practices for far too long,” Ted Harvey, chairman of CDP, told Fox News. “After months of review, the FEC has refused to address the Clintons’ $84 million money laundering scheme that violated several campaign finance laws.”

 
The Sex Education We Need ~ In her new book, Nancy Pearcy explains why God’s divine design for human sexuality is so much richer than the cheap version our secular culture is pushing ~

This book (Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexuality) is meant not to persuade secularists but to galvanize and catechize believers. The audience seems to be young evangelicals and the adults responsible for their formation, so Pearcey keeps her ideas accessible, her prose brisk, and her arguments rooted in scriptural authority.

 
Illegal Migrant Uses Fake ID to Get NHS Transplant While Locals Die on Waiting List ~ Isn’t universal healthcare a wonderful thing?

An illegal immigrant from Albania who used a fake ID to get a kidney transplant, costing (Britain’s) National Health Service (NHS) more than £72,000, has been imprisoned.
 
The crime only came to light after Tafa’s boyfriend had been deported and she told medical staff at a check-up that she had defrauded the NHS.

 
And in other news from the UK ~
Leading Surgeon Says Violence in Khan’s London ‘Like South Africa’, Predicts ‘Summer of Carnage’ ~ Gee, it’s almost as if they’re imported a pathology… ultra-violence in the capital is “the new normal” ~

Dr Martin Griffiths, a consultant surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, said soaring knife and gun crime has resulted in London “looking more like South Africa, or inner-city U.S.” with regards to the rate of attacks […]
 
More than 60 people have died from stabbings alone in Sadiq Khan’s London so far in 2018, with the UK capital having catapulted ahead of New York in the homicide rankings for the first time since 1800 earlier this year.

 
Meanwhile, in France ~
Riots, Cars Burned After Woman Ordered to Remove Full-Face Islamic Veil ~ While the mainstreams are focused on their primary mission – bringing down the Trump presidency – they missed this latest skirmish in the European jihad ~

Hundreds of police were deployed after residents rioted and torched cars in Toulouse following a police stop of a woman wearing an illegal full-face Islamic veil […]
 
Around 15 cars were torched by the rioters and 200 police mobilised during the riots which lasted several hours with some 300 tear gas grenades fired until calm was restored at around midnight.

 
March of Man Disbanded ~ With each new fossil discovery, the iconic monkey-to-man picture of evolution is looking more and more like man-to-man ~

Although still widely pictured in the mass media, paleoanthropologists have long abandoned this picture. They have also unsuccessfully struggled to replace this highly inaccurate picture of human evolution with more accurate illustrations of what they now believe. It looks nothing like the Progression.

 
‘He Placed Us in Here at the Right Moment’: Spirit of Revival Washes Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ~ (Video) Some good news in the wake of last year’s hurricane; the Holy Spirit can always find a way ~

“If you ask any pastor across Puerto Rico, across denominations, no one will say that Hurricane Maria was a bad thing. In the human perspective – of course,” he said. “We still have a lot of people without power but in the spiritual perspective, no, it was a blessing.” (Carlos Rodriguez, who oversees church planting on the island for the Southern Baptists’ North American Mission Board)

 
Florida the Latest State to Join National Legal Stunt ~ Lawfare. Ever since President Trump got us out of the Paris Accord the climatists have been getting desperate ~

The National activist campaign to sue governments over climate change on behalf of “kids” has officially added Florida to its list of targets. It’s the latest political stunt in a series of cases brought all over the country. The lawsuits are not brought forward on legal merits — the true motivation is to generate press coverage and carry out PR stunts to turn public opinion against energy companies.
 
While these lawsuits name young people as the plaintiffs, the effort is really backed by deep-pocketed environmental organizations with the ultimate aim of curtailing oil and natural gas production – forcing through their political will via the courts when state legislatures do not embrace their desired policy.

 
ANTARCTICA : It’s Time We Had That Talk ~ It’s the continent that just refuses to comply with all the alarmists’ climate models ~

Antarctica, the ‘inconvenient’ pole, the naughty child, has been gaining ice mass and cooling for decades, despite a 20 percent increase in atmospheric CO2, and model predictions to the contrary.

 
What’s So Funny About Laughter? And how do we get to a cheerful heart? ~ Al Perrotta at The Stream explores our varied responses to humor and shares some lighthearted advice ~

So here’s my challenge today: Let’s take to our day with a cheerful heart. A heart so cheerful its beat drowns out our thoughts of offense. And beats our defenses to the punch. For those of us who process the humorous in our head and not our heart, Shakespeare says: “Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”

Reminds me of Bob Goff’s infectious cheerfulness 🙂