Thursday, April 14, 2022

Thursday Things

As the warm weather continues on a cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Twitter shareholder Elon Musk offers to buy the whole company.

From FrontpageMag, the plot against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the nomination of new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson are not a coincidence.

From Townhall, the biggest meltdown over Musk's offer to buy Twitter might be from the website Axios.

From The Washington Free Beacon, yes, the media covers up the race of murderers who are not white.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a watchdog, BLM's $6 million mansion is a violation of IRS law.  (As I've said before and will probably say again, "BLM" stands for "Big Luxurious Mansions".)

From American Thinker, even former congresscritter Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) is starting to want President Biden to form "a plan" to deal with the coming border surge.

From CNS News, doubting the resurrection of Jesus while accepting that men can get pregnant.

From LifeZette, Elon Musk's possible hostile takeover of Twitter won't erase Twitter's hostile takeover of the "public square".

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the Department of Homeland Security needs to recognize that the Brooklyn subway shooting shows the wrongness of Democrat racist woke bull[bleep].  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, former NFL coach Tony Dungy humbles the woke mob who come for his head.

From Canada Free Press, a bird bombs Biden.

From TeleSUR, Cuba is elected to two U.N. councils.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what do the "Peter Pans" of the group Extinction Rebellion want?

From Snouts in the Trough, the Germans laughed when then-President Trump warned them about becoming dependent on Russia for their country's energy, but are they laughing now?

From ReMix, according to former Polish Foreign Minister and current europarliamentcritter Witold Waszczykowski, NATO needs a new axis.

From Russia Today, the Russian government claims that the U.S. performed "inhumane" lab experiments in Ukraine.

From Sputnik International, according to President Putin, the West's attempts to push out Russian energy companies will impact the global economy.

From The Moscow Times, the crippling of the Russian ship Moskva could have symbolic and strategic consequences.

From EuroNews, the Russian government threatens a military buildup if Sweden or Finland joins NATO.

From Romania-Insider, UNESCO designates Romania's Buzău Land as a global geopark.

From Novinite, Bulgarian sailors evacuated from the ship Tsarevna are accommodated in hotels in Donetsk, Ukraine, which is now in the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic.  (Due to my admittedly limited knowledge of Polish, which is a Slavic language related to Bulgarian, and familiarity with the title "Tsar", I can make an educated guess that the ship's name means "princess".)

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian parliament passes amendments to its Judiciary Act, which disband two specialized courts and their associated prosecution offices.

From Radio Bulgaria, a regional court in Sofia, Bulgaria determines that the detention of former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov is illegal.

From the Greek Reporter, did ancient Minoan Greeks know about monkeys from the Indian subcontinent?

From Ekathimerini, the daily number of new coronavirus cases in Greece drops below 10,000.

From the Greek City Times, ancient Greek cultural assets stolen over 100 year ago from the island of Samos are catalogued in a German museum.

From Balkan Insight, in Senjak, Serbia, police re-arrest suspected drug trafficker Darko Šarić, who is already on trial for allegedly smuggling large amounts of she-don't-lie.

From Total Croatia News, the county of Osijek-Baranja leads Croatia in using European funds.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's hotels and tourist resorts are almost totally booked for Easter and May Day.

From The Slovenia Times, the Tour of Slovenia is again bringing in great names in the sport of cycling.

From The Malta Independent, the Maltese government swears in two parliamentary secretaries, one of whom has a last name that should be familiar to Americans.

From Malta Today, Maltese House Speaker Anglu Farrugia gets to stay in office.

From ANSA, League party leader Matteo Salvini claims to be "disappointed" about migrant arrivals, but does not want to bring down the government headed by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss government approves a master plan for military cyber defense.

From France24, the Cannes Film Festival unveils a "star-studded lineup".

From RFI, students block buildings at the Sorbonne University in Paris to protest the "fake choice" in the French presidential runoff election.

From Euractiv, French Prime Minister Jean Castex travels to the island of Réunion to rally support for President Emmanuel Macron.  (Réunion is in the Indian Ocean, and is a French départment.)

From El País, lamb cakes are an Easter dessert which will give you nightmares.

From The Portugal News, tourism in Portugal will be boosted with shipwreck maps.

From Free West Media, the E.U. makes an electoral push to abolish nations.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and the E.U. combine their efforts to boost aquaculture.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia aborts its plan to deport four Uighurs to China.

From OpIndia, the terror group Lashkar-e-Islam kills a Hindu in Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India and issue letters asking "kafirs" to leave or die.

From Times Now, more on the killing of a Hindu in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From Al Bawaba, a Shiite imam who called for the "graves of prophets" to be demolished is arrested in the Iraqi province of Babylon.

From Gatestone Institute, the plan by Iran - and the U.S. - to find Russia's war in Ukraine.

From The Stream, Texas sends illegal aliens to the D.C. swamp, Hollywood won't say "gay", and other stories.

From The Daily Signal, the Biden administration again extends its freeze on student loan payments.

From Space War, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin says "good riddance" to the European Spaced Agency for its suspending of joint work on a lunar program.

From The American Conservative, the transgender lobby loves using ad hominems.

From The Western Journal, we now know the truth about presidential pooch Major biting Secret Service agents.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Jesse Watters notes how well the illegal aliens bussed to D.C. are dressed.

From The Daily Wire, after another shareholder increases its stake, Elon Musk is no long Twitter's largest.

From the Daily Caller, climate activists block Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C., preventing a man from witnessing the birth of his child.  (While this deserves the "stupid people" label, it tempts me to make a new one for "assholes".)

From Breitbart, Twitter censors the account "Libs of Tik Tok".

From Newsmax, an member of an ISIS terrorist group known as "The Beatles" because of their British accent is found guilty of terror offences by a U.S. court.

And from the New York Post, if Elon Musk does indeed buy Twitter, recently unretired NFL quarterback Tom Brady wants a favor from him.

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