Friday Links

As the first weekend of National Anthem Disrespecting Football League play gets underway, here are some other things going on:

From Assyrian National News Agency, a Turkish court orders the release of an opposition party spokesman.

From Breitbart's Big Government, a Cardinal allegedly "bears false witness".

From The Daily Caller, America's fight against ISIS could affect Syria's internal borders.

From the New York Post, the House sends President Trump the aid bill for victims of Hurricane Harvey.

From Fox News, Houston, we have a problem - with mosquitoes.

From Gatestone Institute, some information about the Edinburgh University student accused of a hate crime, and his accuser.

From the Dhaka Tribune, half of the population of Bangla Desh is illiterate.

From FrontpageMag, Twitter censors criticism of Islam.

From National Review, "Trump just doesn't get it."

From Townhall, Senator Bob Menendez, on trial for corruption, pulls out the race card.

From the Daily Mail, a British Muslim convert goes to jail for having a fake Spanish ID.

From Sputnik International, "a military and diplomatic source" claims that an American plane was used to evacuate ISIS leaders from Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

From LifeNews, a 13-year-old rape survivor in India gives birth although she was given permission to have an abortion.

From the Express, Poland demands reparations from Germany.

From Russia Today, U.K. MEP Nigel Farage speaks in Berlin.

From Reuters, Hungarian PM Orban will fight the E.U. ruling on his country taking migrants.

From the Greek Reporter, in August, over 3,000 migrants entered Greece from Turkey.

From CNS News, Hurricane Irma will devastate the southeastern United States.

From The Hollywood Reporter, a suspended news anchor goes back to work.

And from Twitchy, a champion kickboxer gets schooled about depression.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For A Rainy Day

As the rain returns to the vicinity of chez grand-pied, here are 12 other things going on:

A woman is found half-naked in London after being raped.

Two men are arrested after explosive materials are discovered in a suburb of Paris.

Even Democrats once understood that lawlessness is not compassion.

Hurricane Irma hits the Caribbean.

With Irma approaching, British tourists get out.

In Sudanese camps, there's no freedom of religion for Christian children.  (H/T TROP)

The PA honors the murderer of three Israelis.

The country with the largest jihad exportation per capita is farther north than you might think.

The Rohingya insurgents in Myanmar and Bangla Desh have some notable connections.

As Harvey's waters recede, the apple snail emerges.

"Shut up", said the judge.  (intermediate source)

And to finish, less cowbell!

British Student In Trouble For Mocking ISIS

Edinburgh University in Scotland seems to have taken political correctness to a new low, and vastly stretched the definition of Islamophobia by placing one of their students under investigation for a hate crime for mocking ISIS.  He is accused of putting minority students "at risk and in a state of panic".  His social media posts reportedly include the term "72 virgins".

It appears that Edinburgh U. didn't get the memo from a certain recent American president, who stated, "ISIL is not Islamic."  ("ISIS" and "ISIL" are acronyms referring to the same military organization.)  If ISIS is not Islamic, I would think that someone mocking them would be appreciated.

Read more at The Herald, The Sun, the Mirror, the Daily Mail and the Edinburgh News.

Another Car Attack In Spain

In Huelva, Spain, a car plowed into a crowd of people outside a bar, injuring at least two people.  The incident is believed to be a revenge attack for a fight that allegedly occurred earlier.  But with the recent attack in Barcelona, I'm sure that the possibility of terrorism has crossed people's minds.

Read more at Cetus News, the Mirror, the Daily Star and the Express.

A New Royal Pregnancy And Other Stories

According to various British sources, Princess Kate, a.k.a. Kate Middleton, a.k.a. the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant for the third time.  Prince George (presumably the future George VII) and Princess Charlotte will soon have another sibling.  Their mother is a commoner, and thus the best thing, genetically speaking, to happen to the British royal family in centuries.  Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (grandparents of Kate's husband Prince William) are third cousins, both being great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, who were first cousins.  Even so, the former WWII truck mechanic and her husband seem quite healthy for a pair of 90-somethings.  (Can President Trump or any of his recent predecessors repair a truck?  Yeah, I thought not.)  Even before Kate joined the family, the long-life gene seems to have already been very strong.

Read more at BBC News, the Express, the Mirror, the Independent and The Guardian.

And in other news:

From the New York Post, gunfire breaks out early in the morning before the J'Ouvert festival in Brooklyn.

From The Daily Caller, those arguing for DACA "put Americans last".

From HotAir, President Trumps kicks the DACA can down the road.

From National Review, a lesson on free speech from James Madison.

From Russia Today, the Polish defense minister accuses European leaders of wanting to "erase" the memory of what Poland suffered through in World War II.

From the Daily Mail, Muslim protesters and police clash in China.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, American warplanes are preventing an ISIS convoy from reaching Iraq.

From CBS Boston, fast food workers rally for higher wages.  (via Breitbart's Big Government)

From Breitbart London, German authorities are tipped off to 330 war criminals posing as asylum seekers.

From the NL Times, anti-Islam protesters are removed from the roof of a Dutch school.

From El País, unemployment rises in Spain.

From Newsweek, ISIS was planning an attack in London a year before the London Bridge attack.

From Arutz Sheva, Chinese authorities remove 1,000 loudspeakers from mosques.

From Legal Insurrection, Israel sends aid to Texas.

From the Los Angeles Times, the west end of the wall.

And from TechSideline, in a Sunday game at FedEx Field, the Virginia Tech football team wins their opener.

Various And Sundry

Some various and sundry (or even sun-dried, because today has been sunny in my area) things going on out there:

Dozens of fake refugees have reportedly entered Germany.

Over 50,000 jihadists posing as migrants now live in Europe.

Chancellor Merkel says that refugees are not a threat.

On the other hand, she wants to keep Turkey out of the E.U.

A fourth suspect in a gang rape in Rimini, Italy has been arrested.

A riot breaks out in a prison in Birmingham, England.

Beware the zombie dog.  (It's really a coyote.)

Leftists want to bring Jim Crow to Princeton.

How DACA came into being.

The United Kingdom won't be giving any "big" payments to the E.U.

J.J. Watt sends in the trucks.

Virginians want their colleges to have safe spaces.

Opinion:  President Trump has helped to create the pseudo alpha male.

"What are the Democrats so afraid of?"

There is hope in Houston.

German explosive experts defuse a 4,000-pound British bomb from WWII.

Burning Man was not supposed to be taken literally.

For her first film, a female director gets a fatwa.

CNN's The Reagan Show shows mostly differences between the Gipper and the Donald.

And last but not least, good riddance.

Walter Becker 1950-2017

Walter Becker, co-founder of the jazz-influenced rock group Steely Dan, has died at his home in Maui, Hawaii at the age of 67.  No cause of death has been reported.  He recently had suffered an unspecified illness which caused him to miss the band's recent shows.

Walter Carl Becker was born in the New York borough of Queens, but graduated from a high school in Manhattan.  He met his longtime partner, keyboardist-singer Donald Fagen, when both were students at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.  The two formed Steely Dan along with guitarists Denny Diaz and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (who later joined the Doobie Brothers), drummer Jim Hodder, and singer David Palmer, who stayed only for their first album Can't Buy A Thrill.  Eventually Fagen and Becker would become the group's only official members, employing numerous other musicians in the studio and on stage.  Initially the group's bassist, Becker would play both guitar and bass on their records.  Steely Dan broke up in 1981, but reunited in 1993.  Besides his work in Steely Dan, Becker recorded two solo albums, 11 Tracks Of Whack, in 1994, and Circus Money, in 2008.

Read more at Rolling Stone, JamBase, TMZ, Pitchfork and Ultimate Classic Rock.

Trump Protested By Dinosaurs

This story is a few days old, and is thus not included in my earlier links post.  It also took me a few clicks to find the original article.  This comes via Legal Insurrection and The Hill, from USA Today, who write:

Forget President Trump’s problems within recalcitrant Republicans and oppositional Democrats. Now he’s facing a mob of menacing dinosaurs.

About 100 wobbly dinosaurs — OK, people dressed up in gigantic, plastic T. rex suits — roared and stampeded across the Capitol lawn on Wednesday morning.

“We’re coming to get you!” one bellowed.

These would-be dinosaurs were protesting President Trump's proposed cuts to some national service programs.  In my opinion, what they should have done, if they really wanted to act like a bunch of T. Rexes, is played some guitars and sung Get It On (Bang A Gong), Telegram Sam or 20th Century Boy.  Read the story at the above links.  Otherwise, you're getting fourth-hand information.

Links For A Rainy Saturday

As the first weekend of NCAA football gets underway, my area gets lots of rain.  Here are some other things going on:

From The Daily Vaper, a new "smoke-free" device is under FDA review.

From BizPac Review, Tucker Carlson slams Republicans who support DACA.

From the Express, an imam who called for Britain's destruction will nonetheless be allowed to visit there.

From The Daily Caller, President Trump and FLOTUS Melania meet with youngsters who survived Hurricane Harvey.

From Yahoo News, citing the Associated Press as their source, the president praises Texans on their efforts to recover from the hurricane.

From the Daily News, American diplomats in Cuba appear to have suffered another sonic attack.

From CNBC, Dutch politician Geert Wilders blames terrorism in Europe on mass migration.

From Dawn, suicide bombers attack people at a power plant in Iraq.

From The Express Tribune, in Pakistan, a man throws acid on his wife for allegedly being infertile.

From NAIJ, in Nigeria, Boko Haram hacks 18 young people to death at a camp for displaced persons.

From The New York Times, in Indonesia, there's a teenage female Muslim heavy metal band.

From The Corner at National Review, the decision to exonerate then-candidate Hillary Clinton didn't come from then-FBI Director Comey.

From The Virginian-Pilot, Virginia Tech continues the new tradition of allowing one football player in each game to wear jersey number 25, in honor of retired coach Frank Beamer.

From the Daily Mail, here's a reason for men to avoid smoking marijuana.

From Townhall, liberals should not get to have it both ways when it comes to white Americans.

From Twitchy, here come the marchers against white supremacy and their demands.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an Israeli media source, Sara Netanyahu, wife of the prime minister, faces an indictment on corruption charges.

From The Washington Times, Russia has vacated its consulate in San Francisco and its trade offices in Washington and New York.

From the New York Post, more evacuation orders go out in Houston as the Brazos continues to rise.

And from The Babylon Bee, Antifa attacks a kid's lemonade stand.  (This is satire, I believe, but maybe TBB shouldn't give Profa any ideas.)

PSA For Maryland ATV Riders

If you're in Prince George's County, Maryland (Pee Gee Canny, Merlin in the local dialect) and you ride an off-road vehicle, you'd better keep that vehicle off the road.  From The Washington Post:

Prince George’s County police will start using a new tool this weekend that authorities hope will catch illegal ATV riders flat-footed — or in this case flat-tired.

Police plan to deploy a device that will puncture holes in tires and cause them to slowly deflate.

The idea is to force off-road vehicles that are operating illegally on highways and public roads to slow down when riders typically ignore police commands to pull over.

So before you plan your next ride, take note and read the full story.