Migrants Leave Loads Of Trash

Freedom Outpost has a story about the invasion of migration into Europe by Syrian "refugees" that I would say falls into the "ugly truth" category.  A small excerpt:

It is not what the refugees used on their journey, but what they left behind unused - discarded Red Cross packaged water, crates of peaches, untouched packaged food, unopened baby diapers, brand new strollers, car seats, toys, and other necessities for someone traveling with a baby. Since these items were left behind, it is obvious that there were no babies among them.

It may seem normal to have some sympathy for refugees, but the blatant disrespect for the places they've entered and traveled through renders sympathy just about impossible.  Read the full story, and take a good look at the pictures.

House Votes To Freeze Planned Parenthood Funding

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted 241-187, mostly along party lines, to freeze funding for Planned Parenthood for a year.  The freeze would last for a year, so Congress can investigate accusations against the organization.

Read more at The Hill, LifeNews, the Washington Examiner, The Washington Post and ABC News.

The Illegal Alien Crime Wave

The federal government does a pretty job on tracking the race and ethnicity of people who commit crimes, but there's one demographic group in the United States for whom the statistics can be hard to find.  From Fox News:

The federal government can tell you how many "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders" stole a car, the precise number of "American Indian or Alaska Natives" who were arrested for vagrancy or how many whites were busted for counterfeiting in any given year. But the government agencies that crunch crime numbers are utterly unable -- or unwilling -- to pinpoint for the public how many illegal immigrants are arrested within U.S. borders each year.

Every once in a while, we hear the argument about immigrants being generally more law-abiding than native-born citizens.  That might be true for the immigrants who come here legally, but the numbers show a very different story for illegal aliens.  It makes perfect sense that a person willing to commit a crime by wrongly entering this country doesn't have too many qualms about committing other crimes after getting in.  As for those who become illegal aliens by willingly overstaying their visas, their respect for American law doesn't seem to be all that great, either.  If an immigrant wants to come to America to live a better life, the term "better life" should be defined to include obeying American law.  If that seems unfair, I should point out that obeying American law is precisely what we American citizens generally expect of each other.

But enough of my $0.02, read the full story.

Tuesday Links

Today on the Ides of September, here's a bit of what's going on:

From Fox News, an instructor at Delta State University in Mississippi, suspected to killing two people, has committed suicide.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iran's nuclear deal is expected to have an effect on the country's elections.

From Reuters, and speaking of nukes, North Korea says that its main nuclear facility is operational.

From The Times Of Israel, Hamas calls recent Israeli actions on the Temple Mount a "declaration of war".

From the Mirror, a 15-year-old British girl killed her mother after viewing online ISIS videos.

From the Express, the Lebanese education minister tells U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron that thousands of ISIS fighters are among the Syrian refugees.

From National Review, Europe rediscovers the concept that good fences make good neighbors.

From The Hill, college students don't need to be "coddled", says.......President Obama?  (via HotAir)

From CBS Chicago, a man is charged with murder for a stabbing that resulting from an argument over a cell phone.

From the Tyler Morning Telegraph, a pastor calms down an armed man who had entered his church.  (via The Blaze)

From CNN, a large object has been found floating in the Indian Ocean near Reunion.

From LifeNews, another video of Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of aborted baby parts.

From Wired, Etsy will start helping artisans to find manufacturers.

From CNET, Wilson unveils the smart basketball.

From the Chicago Tribune, in a development that can only be called "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", Disney is looking to make a new Mary Poppins movie.

And from the New York Post, you can now donate to political candidates and advocacy groups by using Twitter.

Music Break - Some Live Versions

It's certainly about time I made a musical post.  I may have included a few live performances in previous Music Breaks, but this time, I've decided to make live versions the post's theme, so to speak.  Live performances can sometimes have their drawbacks.  Bands might play their songs too fast, the singer can't quite reach the high notes he sang in the studio, or the instruments and sound effects recorded in the studio become difficult to recreate on stage.  Even facing these potential problems, I think I've found a few live performances that do the respective studio versions justice, or at least are enjoyable in their own right.

The Eagles have often incorporated their members' solo songs into their concerts.  Don Henley, officially their drummer, plays guitar in this live version of Dirty Laundry, which appears on his first solo album I Can't Stand Still, released in 1982.  The latter part of the song features consecutive guitar solos by Glenn Frey, Stueart Smith (a sideman hired to replace former member Don Felder) and Joe Walsh.  At this time and at present, the official Eagles are Frey, Henley, Walsh and bassist Timothy B. Schmitt.

Highly Paid CEO Blasts High CEO Pay

Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire Donald Trump, on the CBS show Face The Nation, called the salaries paid to corporate CEO's a "complete joke" and a "disgrace".  Considering that, according to Wiki, he is the CEO of The Trump Organization and two other entities and draws a salary of $250 million, Trump appears to be an example of the very problem he complains about.  (As far as I can tell, Wiki does not specify how much of the indicated salary comes from each respective source.)

To paraphrase Mark Twain:  Suppose you are a politician.  Suppose you are a hypocrite.  But I repeat myself.

Read more at Fortune, Reuters, CBS News and Politico.

ISIS Terrorist Reportedly Arrested In Germany

According to The New Observer,

An ISIS terrorist posing as an “asylum seeker” has been arrested by German police in a “refugee” center in Stuttgart, and German customs officers have seized boxes containing Syrian passports being smuggled into Europe.

The alleged terrorist is a 21-year-old man from Morocco.  Meanwhile in Bulgaria, police seized 10,000 fake Syrian passports.

Read the full story.

Collapsing Crane Kills 87 [Update: 107] People In Mecca

In Mecca, a crane being used in a construction project intended to expand the Grand Mosque killed 87 people and injured over 180 others when it collapsed and fell through the mosque's roof.  At the time, the area was undergoing bad weather, including wind, rain and lightning.  The construction is being done in preparation for this year's Hajj pilgrimage, which occurs later this month.  The Grand Mosque surrounds the Kaaba, a shrine around which the pilgrims walk during the Hajj.

Read more at BBC News, The Guardian, Russia Today, Al Jazeera and the Daily Mail.

UPDATE:  Most of the links are now indicating 107 people killed and 238 injured.

Thursday Links

As the NFL gets ready to kick off the new season, here are some things out there in the news:

From Reuters, the U.S. will accept 10,000 Syrian refugees next year.

From The Telegraph, an ISIS fighter is reportedly hiding in a migrant camp in Calais, France.

From the Washington Examiner, the House passes a resolution alleging that President Obama "ignored law" on the Iran deal.

From CNS News, a disabled veteran gives his (very negative) opinion of the Iran deal.

From Fox News, the NYPD commissioner offers an apology to wrongly arrested tennis pro James Blake.

From The Blaze, Wisconsin Governor and presidential candidate Scott Walker (R) promises that as president, he will prohibit mandatory union dues for federal employees.

From Tech Crunch, guitar maker Fender hires a new Chief Digital Products Officer.

From The Washington Times, when he starts his U.S. visit, Pope Francis will be welcomed at the White House by a religiously diverse group of people.

From Yahoo News, the head from a giant statue of Vladimir Lenin has been dug up in Berlin.

From Breitbart's Big Government, a video shows Nevada-based campaign workers for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton allegedly ignoring or violating the state's voter registration laws.

From One News Now, the legal standing of a pro-LGBT ordinance passed in Fayetteville, Arkansas has been questioned by the state's attorney general.

From News 4 Jax, a 20-year-old man from Orange Park, Florida has been arrested for distributing information on how to make a pressure cooker bomb.

And from The Hollywood Reporter, it won't belong before a certain news anchor comes back.

Enslaved Woman Kills ISIS Commander

According to a report by the Indian site Z News, an ISIS commander named Abu Anas was fatally shot by an Iraqi woman he was keeping as a sex slave.  The text is somewhat confusing because it includes the phrases "an Iraqi women" and "the women was", thus using the plural form "women" with the singular words "an" and "was".  The taking, keeping and selling of sexual slaves, and even the practice of giving slaves as "gifts" has reportedly been rather common within ISIS.

Read the full story.