Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Links For 8/8

Today is August 8th, or as I write it, 8/8.  Today's Twitter hashtag is #InternationalCatDay, which is nonsense, because if you're owned by a cat, every day is CatDay.  Please carefully note who is the owner and who is the owned.  As my father used to say, you don't own cats, they own you.  Thus, for those of you who live with a purring companion, you should enjoy being owned by a cat every day of the year.  As for today, here are some things going on:






From the NL Times, two speedboat thieves are apprehended on the Gooimeer in Amsterdam.  (The Gooimeer is a lake.)


From Sky News, according to a Tory MP, former London Mayor Boris Johnson's remarks about women in burqas "will encourage bigotry".  (In my opinion, the woman clad in a blue burqa, in the article's main picture, doesn't look like a "bank robber" or a "letter box", but a Tardis.)

From Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia crucifies a man from Myanmar.  (If I understand the article correctly, he was publicly hung, i.e. crucified, after he was already executed.  The story comes via Business Insider.)


From Gatestone Institute, "should Turkey remain in NATO?"

From The Slovak Spectator, almost 50 percent of Slovaks would vote for a female president.  (I'd say that due to my own Slovak heritage, I could be included in that number, as long as she's not a female leftist president.)





From The Washington Free Beacon, the number of people apprehended crossing the border from Mexico has declined for the second straight month.  (The number who got through without being apprehended is another matter.)

From Legal Insurrection, neither the Senate Republicans nor the National Archives are impressed with Democratic stall tactics on the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination.

From the New York Post, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville preemptively declare a state of emergency before the anniversary of last year's white nationalist rally.



From National Right To Life, "forcing doctors to perform abortions".  (If a doctor is forced to perform an abortion, is that really pro-choice?)




From CNS News, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro would "love to debate" congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

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