Saturday Stuff

Here on Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend, it's been great weather for a hike, so I went out and walked through a forest like a Bigfoot is supposed to do.  Now that I'm back, here are some things going on:

From National Review, "America's best defense against socialism" is right under our noses.

From Townhall, under the "Equality Act", 2+2=5.  (As Captain Picard will find out a few centuries from now, saying "4" instead of "5" might become quite painful.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) goes after payday lenders.

From the Washington Examiner, not even a tornado warning could stop this soldier from his appointed task.

From American Thinker, liberals don't like their power and privilege slipping away.

From LifeZette, let's remember who we honor on Memorial Day.

From The Conservative Woman, the Germans bombed someone's Brexit vote.

From Free West Media, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker rants about "stupid" people who love their own countries.  (Contrary to his rant, to love one's own county is not to hate other countries.  As an American, I love the U.S. most of all, but I also love many other countries, including my ancestral Slovakia and Poland.  But one thing I'm not fond of would be international organizations and the bureaucrats who run them who think they have the right to tell people what they're allowed to think and feel.)

From the Express, get ready for a no-deal Brexit, Brussels, says one British political commentator.

From the Evening Standard, the Trump baby blimp appears ready for his visit to the U.K.  (I've said it before and I'll probably say it again.  The Trump baby blimp will never be as cool as Pink Floyd's pig.)

From BBC News, five Tories so far have announced their candidacy to succeed Prime Minister May.

From the (U.K.) Independent, one Tory who would succeed May says that he won't serve under another particular one.

From the (Irish) Independent, an IRA terrorist leader dies in prison.

From the Irish Examiner, Sinn Féin urges the Irish government to call for a unity referendum.

From CBC News, Metro Vancouver plans to incinerate the garbage returned from the Philippines.

From Global News, a third of polled Canadians favor banning elected officials from wearing religious symbols.

From CTV News, police in Toronto find that a reported gunman was actually carrying a banana.

From TeleSUR, thousands of Brazilians join a campaign to get a former president released from prison.

From EuroNews, Chilean police break up a migrant smuggling ring which brought people from China into Chile.  (It seems that where there's a will to migrate illegally, there's a way provided by human traffickers.)

From France24, no one has yet claimed responsibility for the package bomb that went off in Lyon.

From RFI, "yellow vest" protesters have been "scattered" for today's Act 28.

From VRT NWS, six Belgian jihadi bridges escape from a Kurdish detention center in Syria.

From Deutsche Welle, 17.5 million residents of E.U. nations cannot vote, because they're not citizens.

From the CPH Post, the Danish public want more done on climate change, but are they willing to change their own behavior?

From SwissInfo, "how Switzerland learned from its mistakes with Soviet POWs".

From the Malta Independent, Maltese armed forces rescue 216 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea.

From Total Croatia News, anti-abortion walks are held in Zagreb, Zadar and Split.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban encourages "anti-migration" voters to vote.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian opposition party LMP says that "our future is at stake".

From Hungary Today, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto says that sexual violence in war "must not be left unpunished".

From Radio Praha, Czech turnout for this year's E.U. elections is higher than it was in 2014.

From Radio Poland, several Polish provinces are under a flood warning.

From Sputnik International, Russia claims that the Law Of The Sea has no jurisdiction in the Kerch Strait case.

From The Moscow Times, an international tribunal rules that Russia must release 24 detained Ukrainian sailors.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov envisions natural gas from Azerbaijan providing a "diversification of sources".

From the Greek Reporter, election campaigns conclude with rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish scientists study plants taken from Antarctica.

From Rûdaw, according to U.S. official Sam Brownback, the Iraqi government needs to do more to protect the country's religious minorities.

From Arutz Sheva, if the "Slave Market" painting is accurate, it shouldn't be a problem.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli opposition leaders vow to not let Prime Minister Netanyahu "turn Israel into Turkey".

From The Jerusalem Post, about 3,000 Palestinians protest at the Israel-Gaza border fence.

From YNetNews, two Israeli engineering students bring clean water to a community in Uganda.

From the Egypt Independent, Cairo's governor promises that the city will have no slums by the end of 2019.

From Egypt Today, Sudan's transitional military council chairman arrives in Cairo to meet with Egypt's president.

From Radio Farda, a comment by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami in favor of federalism stirs controversy.

From IranWire, Iranian intelligence agents close down an Assyrian church in Tabriz.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's anti-extremism efforts include "modernising madrassas".  (To quote the term accurately, I must use the Pakistani spelling "modernising", instead of the U.S. spelling, in which a "z" replaces the "s".)

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan ranks second among countries which restrict Facebook.

From Khaama Press, in the province of Kandahar, Afghan forces kill four Taliban terrorists and destroy six IEDs.

From the Hindustan Times, India is not made only of Hindi-speaking states, says Stalin.  (Yes, there's an Indian political figure named Stalin, who was named after the Soviet leader.)

From ANI, police in Delhi, India arrest four people for allegedly running a fake work visa agency.

From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan government will amend the country's Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.

From the Colombo Page, a suspect in the Easter Sunday bombings was in Myanmar, but has left that country.

From The Jakarta Post, both police and civilians attacked journalists in post-election riots in Jakarta.

From The Straits Times, President Trump "raps" Japan for its trade surplus with the U.S., and a medium-strength earthquake hits Tokyo.  (The earth itself protests Trump's visit, some would say.)

From WPVI-TV, ten people are shot near a bar in Trenton, New Jersey.

From the Daily News, a noted critic of transgender athletes will host a documentary about them.

From NewsBusters, Mayor Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN) appears to have some double standards on racism.

From the New York Post, a couple is accused of posing as Jews in order to convert Jews to Christianity.  (They believe that Jesus is the Messiah, just like the first Christians, who were Jewish.)

And from The Peedmont, a couple will go to a plantation to celebrate the ritual of one person owning another.