Monday, October 2, 2023

Monday Mania

On the first Monday in October, which is warm and mostly sunny, here are some things going on:

From National Review, who is Senator-to-be Laphonza Butler (D-Cal)?

From FrontpageMag, meet the "prophetess of climate propaganda".  (No, this is not about young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.)

From Townhall, the soon-to-be Senator scrubs from her social media that fact that she lives in my neck of the woods.

From The Washington Free Beacon, more on Senator-designate Butler.

Form the Washington Examiner, the possible penalties which fire alarm-pulling congresscritter Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) could face.

From The Federalist, despite domestic problems and opposition, Democrats keep making funding for Ukraine their top priority.

From American Thinker, the military has a conundrum as to how to fight for a country that they have been taught is evil.

From MRCTV, congresscritter Bowman's excuses for pulling the fire alarm are "all smoke" but "no fire".

From NewsBusters, The View hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg find a way to blame Republicans for Bowman's misdeed.

From Canada Free Press, preparing for fraud during the 2024 elections.

From TeleSUR, indigenous Guatemalans demand the resignation Attorney General Consuelo Porras.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the left's effort to abolish borders.  (The article's picture shows a group of migrants in a rubber boat.  Where do these boats come from?  Who is providing them?)

From Snouts in the Trough, why people in the U.K. might soon not be able to afford car insurance.

From the Express, U.K. parliamentcritter Iain Duncan Smith gives Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a list of 100 regulatory changes to make Brexit a success.

From the (Irish) Independent, 3,039 people become Irish citizens.

From VRT NWS, foreign tourists in Ghent, Belgium are surprised to learn that they can take a tram to a place called Moscou.  (Similarly, there is a Metro stop in Paris named Stalingrad.  I was in Ghent during my 2005 visit to Belgium.)

From the NL Times, the Dutch government plans to compensate 3,000 households for noise pollution around Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Deutsche Welle, will Berlin ever complete its monument to German reunification?

From Polskie Radio, according to a survey, 65 percent of Poles favor admitting Ukrainian war refugees.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's budget deficit declined in September.

From The Slovak Spectator, when driving in Šterusy, Slovakia, please keep your dog out of the driver's seat.  (Bad hooman!)

From EuroNews, the E.U. is concerned about Slovak Prime Minister-elect Robert Fico's pro-Russian rhetoric.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Karikó wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine, along with American scientist Drew Weissman.

From Russia Today, Russia becomes Ghana's biggest oil supplier.

From Novinite, the Bulgarian party We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria submits proposals for reforming the country's security services.

From Voice Of Europe, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticizes a judge for releasing three illegal irregular Tunisian migrants from detention in Sicily.

From ReMix, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says of poor kids "let them eat McDonald's".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Vienna's city councillor for education points out sexual assaults and ethnic conflicts by migrants in German language classes.  (If you already know German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia deals with the bear necessities.

From The North Africa Post, the NGO Tunisian League for Human Rights slams the "instrumentalization" of injustice against political opponents of the Tunisian government.

From The New Arab, thousands of people flee Wad Ashana, Sudan after attacks by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians steal water from other Palestinians and then blame Israel.

From The Stream, among other stories, Ojai, California grants legal rights to elephants.  (No, not Republicans, who would have no rights whatsoever if some Democrats had their way, but actual four-legged pachyderms.)

From The Daily Signal, the Biden administration twists a law to force employers to provide leave for abortions.

From BizPac Review, the Chief Twit hammers Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for "crushing free speech" in Canada.

From The Daily Wire, according to satellite images, Russia may be testing a "nuclear-tipped" cruise missile.

From the Daily Caller, a look at the fire alarm the aforementioned congresscritter Bowman pulled, and at his excuse.

From the New York Post, Americans are going nuts over pickleball, and it's going to get worse.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), evidence showing Chinese bank wires to Hunter Biden mean that President Biden can't claim to be uninvolved.

From Newsmax, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre misidentifies Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal).

And from The Babylon Bee, congresscritter Bowman pulls another fire alarm while trying to flush a urinal.

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