Thursday, October 3, 2019

Thursday Things - Part 1

As a cloudy but comfortable Thursday hangs around, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republican Senators introduce a bill to improve statistics on abortion.

From FrontpageMag, deep state collusion with congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal).  (For some reason, today's posts on FrontpageMag are given tomorrow's date.)

From Townhall, dumb and impeachment dumber.

From The Washington Free Beacon, multi-billionaire Geroge Soros gives the Virginia division of Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood their biggest outside contribution ever.

From the Washington Examiner, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) asks Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) to suspend the impeachment inquiry.

From The Federalist, media lies about innocent men harm their daughters.

From American Thinker, the push by the Democrats to impeach President Trump is a "bonanza" for Republicans.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter AOC (D-NY), billionaires are a product of an immoral system.  (I trust that this includes left-wing billionaires such as Ted Turner, Bill Gates, and the above-mentioned George Soros.)

From LifeZette, Pelosi defends Schiff for his fake version of Trump's Ukraine phone call.

From NewsBusters, the media reported on a woman convicted of murder being hugged by the victim's brother, but left out what he said to her.

From Canada Free Press, despite high health care spending, Canada ranks low in hospital bed, the number of doctors, and wait times.

From CBC News, Ontario's ban on food waste in landfills has some problems.  (I would think that food waste, which is biodegradable, should be the first thing put into landfills.)

From Global News, what Canada's federal parties pledge on immigration.

From CTV News, a woman in British Columbia is awarded the right to call herself a "death midwife".

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian transport workers go on strike.

From The Jakarta Post, "quo vadis, Indonesia?"

From The Straits Times, the Hong Kong protester shot by police is charged with assault and rioting.

From the Borneo Post, according to the head of an association of Malaysia palm oil producers, they have not practiced open burning since 1985.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Little Sisters of the Poor ask for longer visas for their work in Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, Japan unveils its gravitational wave detector.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan immigration officials threaten a union action.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's railway service is declared an "essential public service".

From The Hans India, authorities in Delhi seize 140 kilos of illegal firecrackers.

From the Hindustan Times, a man in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has his internal organs in the opposite places as most people.

From ANI, the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter detects charged particles and variations in their intensity.

From India Today, according to sabhacritter Shobha Karandlaje, immigrants are taking rights away from native Indians.  (A sabhacritter is the Indian equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From Khaama Press, airstrikes in Afghanistan send at least 18 Taliban terrorists to their virgins, and destroy a stolen humvee.

From Dawn, police in Charsadda, Pakistan arrest barbers for styling men's beards, such styled beards allegedly being "un-Islamic".

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan and the Taliban call for the U.S. to resume peace talks.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff tells corporate leaders of the "intimate" link between security and economy.

From Radio Farda, Iranian women married to foreigners will "finally" be able to pass their citizenship to their children.

From IranWire, an Iranian man held in Prison 300 recounts his treatment.

From StepFeed, artists, authors and innovators will soon be able to obtain long-term visas to Dubai.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish and Greek migration ministers discuss the migration crisis.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey fines Facebook for violating its data protection laws.

From Rûdaw, troops from the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq assert the right to defend themselves.

From In-Cyprus, a woman from the Philippines is sentenced in Cyprus to six years for trafficking babies.

From The Syrian Observer, Lebanon decides to deport an anti-Assad activist to Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF and Israeli police stop two men from smuggling weapons into Israel from Lebanon.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli party Likud backs away from a proposed leadership primary.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF indicts five Palestinians for the stabbing death of an IDF corporal.

From YNetNews, Hamas faces growing criticism from Gazans because its leaders allegedly keep aid money from Qatar for themselves.

From Egypt Today, Egypt releases detained foreigners in response to requests from their respective embassies.

From Morocco World News, just when you thought it was safe to dig up fossils in Morocco.

From The Sydney Morning Herald, Muslim boys bully Jewish boys at a school in Melbourne, Australia.

From Gatestone Institute, the goal of "anti-normalization" of Israel.

From The Stream, a new law in California allows NCAA athletes to earn endorsement money and hire an agent.

From Breitbart, the Democratic National Committee demands that Facebook "fact check" ads from President Trump's campaign.

From the Daily Caller, the Democrats got spooky this past week.

From LifeNews, the 2,246 aborted babies hoarded by the recently deceased Ulrich Klopfer will be given a decent burial.

From Twitchy, advice to Trump and his staff about impeachment from his former rival will overload irony meters.

From the New York Post, scientists in Britain use powerful light beams to decipher ancient scrolls.

And from Page Six and the "why don't the mind their own business?" department, PETA goes after singer Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Baldwin for buying exotic cats.  (via the Daily Caller)

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