Friday, October 29, 2021

Friday Fuss

On a cool rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Pennsylvanians are not amused with their former Health Secretary Rachel Levine.

From FrontpageMag, how much of witch folklore is true?

From Townhall, the Associated Press is puzzled that a Democrat could lose an election.  (I've come to believe that the left-wing definition of a "free and fair election" is one which is won by a Democrat.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a coalition of black lawyers, New York state's concealed carry restrictions are racist.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden gives a "bizarre" answer when asked if he and Pope Francis discussed abortion during their meeting.

From The Federalist, seven "insane" things about how U.S. elections are allegedly "rigged".

From American Thinker, Americans are starting to realize where the left wants to take us.

From CNS News, congresscritter Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) calls herself "the best example" of the American dream.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Biden becomes not only the Grinch of Christmas but also the Grinch of Halloween.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, congresscritter Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) decides to call it a career.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN and MSNBC try to hide the Loudoun County, Virginia school board cover-up of a rape in a high-school bathroom for 17 nights.  (The story cites an article in The Daily Wire, to which you'll have to subscribe in order to read.)

From Canada Free Press, what a woman (who wrote the article ) learned from the Communist Party.

From Global News, Kingston, Ontario, Canada will put on its nighttime Santa Claus parade this year.

From TeleSUR, a Mexican journalist is shot to death in the state of Chiapas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the traffic blockers from Insulate Britain need to get real about "crimes against humanity".

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promises to take "appropriate action" in the U.K,'s fishing dispute with France.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the Irish government could decide on vaccinating children aged 5 to 12 against the coronavirus within the next month.

From The Brussels Times, some coronavirus rules in Belgium which change today.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a woman is beaten and critically injured on a bus in Belgium.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From Dutch News, Dutch ministers meet to decide on new coronavirus measures.

From ReMix, according to Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, ethnic Poles are being discriminated against in Ukraine.

From Hungary Today, Budapest, Hungary reintroduces its coronavirus restrictions.

From Free West Media, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, E.U. bureaucrats live "on another planet".

From Sputnik International, a Tajik blogger and his female Russian friend are given 10 months in jail for a photo prank in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

From EuroNews, Russian parliamentcritter Valery Rashkin is accused of illegal hunting after parts of an elk carcass is found in his car.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev appoints caretaker Justice Minister Yanaki Stoilov to judge on the country's Constitutional Court and names a replacement justice minister.

From Ekathimerini, a cargo ship carrying about 400 migrants is led to a safe anchorage by the Greek coast guard after suffering engine problems.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić will not resign.

From Balkan Insight, truck drivers protest the new tolls at the border between Kosovo and North Macedonia.

From Malta Today, a man from Gzira, Malta who was on bail crashes a stolen vehicle into a police car, for which his bail is revoked.

From Italy24News, rapid coronavirus tests in Italy are not valid for its Green Pass.

From RFI, France's ambassador to the U.K. is set have talks with U.K. politicians over fishing rights.

From Euractiv, Europe's energy crunch appears to have been profitable for European gas companies.

From The North Africa Post, the U.N. Security Council extends Morocco's mandate over the region of Sahara for one year.

From the Libyan Express, the U.N. and U.S. imposes sanctions on a man accused of running a migrant detention center in Zawiyah, Libya.

From Turkish Minute, media outlets critical to the Turkish government are not allowed to cover Turkey's Republic Day ceremonies.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Times Of Israel, Israel joins the growing number of countries pledging to be "carbon neutral" by 2050.  (I put "carbon neutral" in quotes because the term is somewhat misleading, because it leaves out the word "dioxide".)

From Egypt Today, Egyptian High Education Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar will also perform the duties of Health Minister Hala Zayed until she recovers from her recent heart attack.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese general who seized power in a military coup says that he will appoint a new prime minister within a week.

From IranWire, according to eyewitnesses, Iranian border guards gunned down women and children trying to enter from Afghanistan.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani authorities establish a "red line" on a bridge over the river Jhelum to prevent the group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan from reaching the capital city of Islamabad.

From ANI, Delhi, India will allow schools for all grade starting on November 1st.

From New Age, Bangladeshi job seekers are unhappy about having to perform up to recruitment 13 tests per day.

From the Daily Mirror, according to an adolescent psychiatrist, the coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in child abuse in Sri Lanka.

From Yahoo Finance, an Indonesian Islamic organization declares cryptocurrency to be forbidden.

From The Straits Times, a senior aide to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to 20 years in prison.

From the Borneo Post, a look at Malaysia's 2022 budget.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh co-chairs a World Economic Forum dialogue on Vietnam.

From Gatestone Institute, a pact between Greece, the U.S. and France is a deterrent to Turkish aggression.

From The Stream, addressing God as "Mother" goes against scripture.

From Fox 5 New York, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, people calling for defunding the police "own" the shooting death of a 71-year-old tourist from Florida.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From the Daily Mail, President Biden rides through Rome in an 85-car motorcade.

From The Daily Signal, the G-20 summit needs an agenda for freedom and prosperity more than ever.

From The American Conservative, China is proving that no amount of government force can destroy the coronavirus.

From BizPac Review, when a 15-year-old girl is reportedly denied entry to a school event for not having a vaccination card, her mother would have none of it.

From The Western Journal, a car dealership in Texas shows how bad the supply chain crisis is.

From Knox News, the University of Tennessee bans 16 students and 9 others from athletic events after they threw trash at Neyland Stadium during a football game against Ole Miss.  (via The Daily Wire)

From The Daily Wire, Facebook's new name has an unfortunate meaning when read as a Hebrew word.  (I'm reminded of the Chevrolet car model Nova, which didn't sell very well in Spanish-speaking countries, because no va in Spanish means "doesn't go".)

From the Daily Caller, Iowa passes legislation allowing people who lose their jobs for refusing coronavirus vaccination to collect unemployment benefits.

From Breitbart, Dr. Fauci's division of the National Institutes of Health funded experiments at Kansas State University in which puppies were injected with mutant bacteria and subjected to ticks.

From Newsmax, U.S. intelligence still doesn't know whether the coronavirus spread to humans from an animal or was leaked from a lab.

From Entertainment Weekly, actress Jamie Lee Curtis wants to act as the voice of the devil in the new reboot of the Exorcist movies.  (via the New York Post)

And from the New York Post, a hunter in Michigan claims to have taken a picture of my namesake.

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