Friday, October 11, 2019

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

As a sunny Friday comes around to end the latest workweek, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats had a "disastrous" LGBT town hall on CNN.

From FrontpageMag, two illegal aliens from Mexico get jail time for aiding the flight of another illegal alien who killed an immigrant from Fiji.  (This episode should underscore the difference between true immigrants, who come here illegally, and illegal aliens, who either come here illegally or come in and illegally overstay their visas.)

From Townhall, the Trump administration makes headway against the immigration court backlog.

From The Washington Free Beacon, CNN host Chris Cuomo jokes about Senator Kamala Harris's preferred pronouns.

From the Washington Examiner, Sesame Street goes after the opioid crisis.

From The Federalist, former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy reveals the real Russian collusion story.

From American Thinker, are you ready for congresscritter Chelsea Clinton?  (I've long entertained the idea that someday she and George Prescott Bush, currently the Texas land commissioner, will run against each other for the presidency.  I guess that she has to start somewhere.)

From CNS News, the CNN town hall applauds a 9-year-old transgender.

From LifeZette, while President Trump unloads on former Vice President Biden, left-wing protesters go nuts outside his rally in Minneapolis.

From NewsBusters, the ten worst questions at the CNN LGBT town hall.

From CBC News, why four websites give you four different credit scores, and most lenders never see any of them.

From Global News, a raptor skeleton found in southern Alberta is called a "scientific goldmine".

From CTV News, heading into Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, dozens of ridings are "too close to call".  (A "riding" is an area served by an individual member of Canada's House of Commons, and thus the equivalent of a U.S. congressional district.)

From TeleSUR, Russia plans to invest $16.5 billion dollars in Venezuela by the end of this year.

From The Portugal News, at the C40 climate summit in Copenhagen, U.N. Secretary General Guterres calls for pressure to be put on governments.  (How much pressure does he want put on the Chinese government?  Did Guterres travel to Copenhagen on a private jet?)

From El País, Spain's Supreme Court rules against charging Catalan separatist leaders with rebellion.

From SwissInfo, in Switzerland, how useful are opinion polls.

From ANSA, according to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Europe need to act on migrants or be "submerged".

From the Malta Independent, eight migrants are apprehended a week after allegedly breaking out of the Safi Detention Center.

From Total Croatia News, an Islamic encyclopedic almanac is launched in Zagreb, Croatia.

From EuroNews, the statue The Victor in Belgrad, Serbia is removed for renovation.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, winners in the Kosovo election agree to form a coalition government.

From Ekathimerini, Greece and Europe face a new migration crisis.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls for more NATO ships in the Aegean sea to patrol for migrants.

From Euractiv, three Balkan countries create a "mini-Schengen" zone.

From Novinite, 10 experts in forest fire prevention speak at a two-day conference in Sofia.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, there is no increase in migration pressure due to Turkey's incursion into Syria.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria calls on North Macedonia to stop alleged hate speech in its state media.  (What exactly is meant by "hate speech" is probably very subjective.)

From Romania-Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis will name a new prime minister next week.

From Sputnik International, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, who made the first space walk, dies at age 85.

From Russia Today, Leonov leaves behind an "amazing" set of paintings.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian court sentences a U.S.-born Israeli woman to 7 and a half years in prison for smuggling marijuana.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian President János Áder, the limits of accepting migrants should be discussed openly.

From Hungary Today, do Hungarian municipalities favoring the party Fidesz get more government money?

From About Hungary, according to spokesman Gergely Gulyás, the Hungarian government continues to oppose all E.U. migrant quotas.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's top officials debate foreign policy

From Polskie Radio, a Polish writer defends her country and her people.

From the CPH Post, Carlesberg makes progress developing the world's first paper beer bottle.  (I'll drink to that.)

From Deutsche Welle, the suspect in the Halle, Germany synagogue shooting confesses.

From Free West Media, the AdF rejects allegations of "intellectual arson".

From the NL Times, the town center of Dorpstraat in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands is closed down after an ATM is bombed.

From Dutch News, a woman is arrested in Uithoorn, Netherlands for allegedly managing an ISIS support group on a social media network.

From VRT NWS, a Spanish company takes over 62 Thomas Cook Belgium's shops.

From France24, after the European Commission rejects France's nominee for commissioner, French President Macron is lambasted.

From RFI, some refugees make a successful new life in the French countryside.

From the Express, according to an E.U. insider, the U.K. won't leave on October 31.

From the Evening Standard, a man stabs three people at a shopping center in Manchester, England.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to an ally, U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will step down if his party doesn't win in the next election.

From the (Irish) Independent, Extinction Rebellion protesters stick scientific papers onto a government building.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish gardaí prepare a "comprehensive" file of possible terror offenses by ISIS member Lisa Smith.

From Voice Of Europe, according to a "top bureaucrat", the E.U. needs an army of at least 60,000 troops.

From The Conservative Woman, without a clean Brexit, the U.K. can't escape the E.U. army.

From The Stream, Bob O'Rourke's blatant call for state-approved religion.

From the Daily Caller, the LGBTQ town hall "implodes".

From The Washington Times, an oil spill reaches a beach in Salvador, Brazil.

From Premier Christianity, a U.K. judge rules that a woman with learning disabilities must be fitted with a contraceptive device.  (via the Catholic Herald and LifeNews.)

From the New York Post, this is what you might look like, before and after heroin.

From WPVI-TV, a house in Lake Tahoe, California becomes the scene of a real Goldilocks story.

From WRAL, a North Carolina man claims to have found evidence of my namesake.

And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren (D-MA) recalls how she lost her teaching job after her fake mustache fell off.

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