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

 
Baltimore Holds Vigil For Murder Victims As City Breaks Homicide Records ~ So sad. Lawlessness just breeds more lawlessness ~

The city recently reached 343 homicides for 2017 so far, breaking the city’s per capita record on killings, reports CBS Local Baltimore. In response, hundreds of people stood outside the Baltimore War Memorial Building, with some carrying signs with an inspirational word for the new year.

 
Big List of 170 Trump accomplishments in 340 days ~ This was compiled by WND last month (hopefully they’ll be doing an update…). Pretty impressive for the first 11 months ~

(W)hile he has befuddled and disappointed some – with major promises such as Obamacare repeal and a border wall unfulfilled or put on the backburner – the stunning reality is this: Donald Trump has amassed a long and remarkable list of actions and accomplishments that will surprise average Americans, even those who support the president and consider themselves well-informed politically.

 
America’s Oldest Hunter Bags Third Deer Of The Season At 104 Years Old ~ Whoa! And he only took up hunting as a hobby when he retired at age 65 ~

Congratulations to Clyde Roberts on another successful season, and best wishes in the seasons to come. His recent 8-pointer marks the 11th deer he has taken since turning 100 years of age!

 
Sheila Jackson Lee’s Long History Of Being An Entitled ‘Queen’ ~ The story of the Texas Democrat congresswoman bumping Jean-Marie Simon, a teacher (also a Democrat), from her seat in first class on a United flight, was widely reported. But to longtime Lee watchers the entitled behavior comes as no surprise ~

This is certainly not the first time that Jackson Lee has thrown tantrums when she did not get preferential treatment — and then claimed racism when she received bad press over the incident […]
 
(F)ormer staffers claim she was physically abusive, threw cell phones at staff and demanded unsafe driving while being chauffeured, which allegedly resulted in at least one car accident. She would reportedly demand staffers go to the market and buy garlic supplements for her at 2AM and would be furious with them if her demands were not met.

 
Delivery Drivers Reveal London ‘No-Go Zones’ Made ‘Too Dangerous to Work’ by Acid Attacks and Knife Crimes ~ Wait – what? London has no-go zones too?

(E)ven MPs from the mayor’s own political party are now sounding the alarm on crime in the capital, with former Labour minister Stephen Timms demanding “serious action” on areas of London rendered “no-go zones” by acid attacks.

But shhh… Don’t tell the truth ~

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has previously called attention to some of the problems faced by Britain and its capital city as a result of mass immigration, especially that of terror attacks committed by Islamic extremists.
 
In response, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan — who claims that “the world looks to London as a beacon of diversity”– has repeatedly called for the president to be banned from Britain.

Illinois: Muslim trucker made “no attempt to stop” before crashing into seven vehicles killing 4 ~ Another “lone wolf” goes on vehicular jihad, media downplays the story ~

Police spokesman Calvin Dye Jr. says 53-year-old Mohamed Yussuf Jama of Greeley was driving the tractor-trailer when it he crashed into vehicles that had slowed or stopped in a construction zone near Hamel on Nov. 21.
 
Jama’s 2016 Freightliner Cascadia slammed into cars on Interstate 55 with “no attempt to stop,” Dye said. The cars were slowed or stopped in traffic, ahead of the truck. The semi ran over some vehicles.

(Notice how the report blames the truck for 4 dead – and 12 injured – people?!)
 
Mark Steyn has a great piece on the dhimmification of western societies, as we hide behind barricades from crazed Islamists who want to mow us down ~ We Are the Bollards (“bollards” = concrete blocks) ~

So there will be more empty seats round the Christmas table this year, after an “Australian citizen” mowed down pedestrians at the junction of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street in Melbourne…

 
And then there’s this guy ➡ Houston imam calls for Muslims to kill Jews ~ While he has since walked back his sermon calling for the murder of Jews, he hasn’t yet apologized ~

Al-Rousan had delivered his inflammatory speech on Dec. 8, two days after President Donald Trump announced the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
 
“Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Muslims will kill the Jews,” Al-Rousan said.
 
The imam also asserted in his speech that Jews “killed the Prophets and the Messengers of Allah.” He accused Britain of bringing Jews to Palestine, adding “So do not tell me that Palestine is the country of the Jewish people. No!”

 
Comatose woman unexpectedly awakens in time for Christmas ~ A Christmas miracle 🙂 ~

ADA, Minnesota, December 22, 2017 – Sheila Lewis was in a coma and hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for 12 days. Her family expected her to die, but instead she woke up and asked for a glass of water.
 
Now she’ll be able to celebrate Christmas with her family.

 
MAGA – Make Art Great Again Friday ~ Anything ever done by white men is now evil because – how could it not be?
 
City officials commit to removing ‘racist’ trees from golf course in Palm Springs ~ Omg. Now they’re going after trees? ~

Decades ago, a large grove of tamarisk trees was planted on the border between Tahquitz Creek Golf Course and a historically black neighborhood, along with a chain link fence. But at an informal city meeting this week, officials promised residents that the trees and the fence would be removed.
 
According to USA Today and The (Palm Springs, Calif.) Desert Sun, the residents of the bordering neighborhood “said the invasive tamarisks, which block views of the Tahquitz Creek Golf Course and San Jacinto mountains, have artificially depressed property values and prevented black families from accumulating wealth in their property over the past half century.”

Tucker Carlson has 99 more outrageous examples of the evils of “whiteness.”

 
Brits Tear Down Lake District Wind Turbines to Restore Pristine Views: Locals Delighted ~ Strangely enough, it turns out —

— real environmentalists, as well as those forced to live cheek by jowl with these giant whirling wonders, tend not to feel so warm and fuzzy about them, after all. Instead, community defenders, across the globe, will do anything to prevent them destroying the rural environments in which people are bound to live.

 
Christians don’t have a Christmas monopoly on Jesus. Muslims honor him too ~ They honor Jesus by trying to wipe out Christianity in the Middle East? Cut the multi-culti crap NBC.
 
Iraqi Christians Celebrate Bittersweet Christmas After ISIS Defeat ~

“Celebrating Christmas here is a message, that despite all the threats, persecution, killing and what we faced in Iraq, we have hope that this country will change,” said Rev. Martin Banni, a Chaldean Catholic priest in Karamlesh, according to JPost. “The last Christmas Mass here was in 2013. Now, the cross is lifted again over the Church of St. Paul.”

 
North Carolina high school QB finds a home with his coach ~ Inspiring story of a young man who needed a family, and the one who opened their home and hearts to him ~

(Braheam Murphy) said everything that has happened — his better grades, finding a home and a new family, winning state — fell into place thanks to his faith in God.

 
Donald Trump Pays for Christmas Dinner for Hundreds of Law Enforcement Members Working the Holiday ~ Another one of those positive stories about the president that the mainstreams strangely managed to miss

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

 
Turkey’s Erdogan Invites Venezuela’s Maduro to Anti-Israel ‘Islamic Community’ Meeting ~ Of course. Dictators-of-a-feather ~

Maduro was invited by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called the meeting, to attend as a special observer. Maduro’s socialist government was among the loudest in Latin America protesting Trump’s declaration, in which he also announced Washington would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

 
‘Cowardly killers’ walked into an elementary school Christmas party and fatally shot a Mexican journalist ~ Just the latest heart-breaking tragedy in a decades-long reign of terror by the drug cartels ~

Pérez had spent half his life reporting on local crime and drug trafficking, working in one of the world’s most deadly places for journalists. His wife had warned him of the risks, she told reporters. She knew how often journalists got killed in this part of Mexico. But she never imagined something as brutal as this, in an elementary school classroom full of children.[…]
 
Pérez became the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico this year, according to the organization Reporters Without Borders. His death would make Mexico the most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2017, according to the group’s numbers, tied with war-torn Syria.
 
Since 1992, 95 journalists have been killed in Mexico, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 43 of those cases the motive has been directly related to the victims’ work as a journalist. Six of those have been killed in 2017, making it a record year. Far too many murders across the country go unsolved.

 
Church Militant Gathers To Sing Christmas Songs. Satanists Show Up. Things Gets Awkward ~ Also, Leftists and Satanists Disrupt Church Militant’s Noel Night (with video) ~ No rest for the wicked. Satan hates the sound of Christians rejoicing over the birth of our Savior ~

In what proved to be a rather wild night despite the initially low-key billing, the Church Militant, a Catholic group founded by Michael Voris, held a Christmas carol event at the Ferndale, Michigan City Hall on Wednesday and were joined by a group of rowdy protesters that included self-described Satanists, pro-LGBT activists, and probably a few people who showed up just to see what would happen. The night ended up being a battle of the lyrics both sacred and profane of various Christmas-themed songs.

 
Nuclear Retreat Leaves Wind ‘Powered’ Germany’s Power Grid on the Brink of Collapse ~ Alarmed by the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany scrapped plans for any new reactors and decided to phase-out its entire nuclear generation system by 2022. Oops ~

Now Germany is scrambling to reinstate ageing coal-fired power plant, as well as building all new coal-fired capacity, just to keep the lights on […]
 
Germany’s rush to wind and solar, while shutting down what was one of Europe’s largest and most reliable nuclear power generation fleets will go down as one of the greatest economic and environmental disasters of all time.

 
More eco- fanaticism ~ France to ban oil and gas production by 2040 ~ Great. More $$ for us. France is pretty much over anyway. In a couple decades the country will be majority-Muslim. How do you say “no fracking” in Arabic?

 
Why the God-Haters Hate Israel ~ Anti-Semitism is as old as the Bible. Trevor Thomas at the American Thinker explains why ~

The God who spoke to Abraham and Moses is the same God who inspired the Pilgrims and the Puritans — the people who are most responsible for the founding of the United States. Though Christianity teaches that we are all under a new covenant with our Creator, the nation of Israel still stands as a testimony to the Truth. Thus any move that further legitimizes Israel — such as official recognition by the United States of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and placing our embassy there — will be strongly opposed by those who hate the Truth.

 
Bombshell Report: Political Persecution Of Scott Walker Swept Up High-Level GOP Officials ~ Continuing investigation of the targeting of conservatives by Democratic officials in Milwaukee. D.C. is not the only swamp that needs draining. Every level of government is becoming more partisan and thus more corrupt.

 
YES! New Ohio Law is HUGE Pro-Life Win for Down Syndrome Babies ~ Gov. Kasich gets one right 🙂 ~

This is a huge deal. Especially considering just how many doctors openly encourage the extermination of Down syndrome children (see Mother Pens Moving Letter to Doctor Who Encouraged Her to Abort Down Syndrome Baby…). Under this law, they’ll be held accountable for their murderous evildoings. The mother, not so much. But at least it’s something.

 
North Korea flooded with illicit information carried by hydrogen balloons as tensions escalate ~ What a creative way to get the truth to the beleaguered prisoners of the Hermit Kingdom [Christians have been using this method for several years] ~

North Korean defectors are ramping up a campaign to covertly flood their former homeland with flashdrives and balloons full of news bulletins and documentaries to counter state propaganda as tensions escalate with the US over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missiles programmes […]
 
We’re creating little windows to the outside world so that the North Korean people can make decisions for themselves about what they want to do with their lives,” he (Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategy officer) said.

 
 Trump To Remove Climate Change From List Of National Security Threats ~ Oh no. This should make more leftie heads explode ~

The Trump administration will reverse course from previous Obama administration policy, eliminating climate change from a list of national security threats. The National Security Strategy to be released on Monday will emphasize the importance of balancing energy security with economic development and environmental protection, according to a source who has seen the document and shared excerpts of a late draft.

‘Jesus is My Messiah’: Jewish Woman Comes Face to Face with an Angel, Gives Life to Christ ~ A Christmas miracle story. Watch a video of this woman’s moving testimony.