A Quick Run Around the Web (11/5/2019)

My bookmarks and inbox are full of articles about which I would like to share, but don't have the time to comment on in depth. Check the list out and see if anything interests you:

• "Police Do Nothing as Antifa Thugs Violently Attack Trump Supporters After Minneapolis Rally"--PJ Media. 
• "New Zealand’s Gun Confiscation Shaping Up To Be Massive Failure"--Bearing Arms. Authorities are excited because they might end up with as high as a 33% compliance rate.
• "Bigger, Stronger, Faster – The Ghost Gunner 3 is Coming"--The Firearm Blog. And it won't even cost $6 million. It should be able to handle AR-10 sized receivers.
• And yet another one: "Nigerian cops free 259 emaciated women, men and teenagers from another Islamic rehabilitation centre where captives were chained, beaten and survived on one meal a day"--Daily Mail. 
• "Jeffrey Epstein’s Death: The Plot Thickens"--The American Spectator. An apparently well-known and respected forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, reports that Epstein's "autopsy disclosed three fractures of the thyroid cartilage and the hyoid bone (a horseshoe-shaped bone in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage). According to Baden, such fractures 'are very unusual for suicide and are more indicative of homicidal strangulation.'"
• "Faithful Catholics Throw Amazonian Idols Displayed in the Vatican into the Tiber River"--PJ Media. The unclothed pregnant female statue, Pachamama, or Mother Earth, was a fertility idol displayed in a church in the Vatican. But don't worry, Pope Francis had the idols rescued from the river and put back on display.
• "China is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison camps"--Business Insider. And yet, the Anonymous Conservative observes, Muslims direct their ire toward the West and are silent in regard to China.
• But California's government said that short wave was no longer needed in an emergency because there were so many other ways to communicate: "Widespread cellphone, power outages during fires show what could happen after major quake"--Los Angeles Times.
• "Another Magic Dirt fail"--Vox Popoli. "A record 67.3 million U.S. residents speak a foreign language at home, the latest sign of the growing influence of immigrants on American culture. Census Bureau data shows that homes that do not speak English first grew seven times faster than those that do."
• Speaking of magic: "Debate Professor: Science Is A Projection Of Whiteness"--Hot Air. “Our argument will be that space is not real. It’s not real. Science, technology, it’s all fake. It’s a projection of white fantasies that has worked to control our interpretation of how the world works.” The true reason for the Fermi Paradox is that every advanced civilization is overcome by r-select rabbit Leftists before it can spread beyond the confines of its solar system. 
• Shhh. This is not supposed to be a thing: "Muslim Migrant Smuggles at Least Six Other Muslims Across U.S.-Mexico Border"--PJ Media. And this: "Judicial Watch reported back in 2016 that police in a New Mexico border town arrested a woman they described as an 'Islamic refugee' who was 'in possession of the region’s gas pipeline plans.'"

• Related: "Ecuador Still Helping Unknowns From All Over The World Get To The U.S. Border"--The Federalist. Ecuador was letting people from all over the world, including Africa, and the Middle- and Far-East fly in on nothing but a passport, which then allowed them to enter the smuggling routes headed to the United States.

• Related: "Mexico “terror path proven” as jihadists infiltrate refugee stream and enter US"--Jihad Watch.

• "About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says"--Military Times.
• "Saved in America Founder: Open Border Helps Cartel Sex-Traffickers Abduct Our Children"--Breitbart. 
• "BILLBOARD IN LONDON ENCOURAGES WHITE PEOPLE TO STERILIZE THEMSELVES"--Paul Joseph Watson. 

• Related: "Dying Society: Deaths of UK-Born Overtake Births to UK-Born Mothers"--Breitbart.

• "The Ministry of Love: Ongoing Gender Partisanship in the Department of Education"--The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. The DOE discriminates against men.
• "The Lightning Beneath Our Feet"--Nautilus. Earthquake lights may be produced by the release of oxygen plasma from the crust.
• "Paleontologists trace orgins of modern humans to Botswana"--UPI. The researchers relied upon mitochondrial DNA. But a bunch of other scientists think that reliance upon a single factor like the mitochondrial DNA is unwarranted and inaccurate.
• "Center of Milky Way exploded 3.5 million years ago"--UPI. "The energy emitted by the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, rippled across the galaxy for just 300,000 years, a relatively brief period of time." Okay, maybe this is the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
• "'Cosmic Mudball Meteorite' Smells Like Brussels Sprouts, Finds New Home at Museum"--Space.com.
• Is it just me, or does anyone else think there is some significance to Obama relying so heavily on the SEALs for his special missions, but that Trump turned to Delta Force to take out Al-Baghdadi?
• "American media barely noticing that Spain may be falling apart"--American Thinker. 
• They can have my plastic straw when they pry it from my cold, dead hands: "China’s Rivers Are the Major Source of Plastic Entering the Oceans"--Epoch Times. Besides, my plastic straws aren't the problem. "With 91 percent of the 8.8 million tons of plastic added to oceans each year originating in rivers, the Yangtze and five other Chinese rivers are the dominant polluters."
• Some people can't handle the truth: "A conversation about abortion with my Uber driver"--American Thinker. 

Me: "Do you know how abortions are performed?"

Uber driver: "Not really."

Me. "Well, for example, in a second-trimester surgical abortion, the abortion doctor uses what's called a Sopher clamp, an instrument with serrated teeth on the business end.  The abortion doctor uses the Sopher clamp to probe inside the patient's womb.  When he feels something, he clamps down and pulls hard, and out comes an arm or a —"

     Before I could finish the sentence, my Uber driver raised his hand and pleaded, "Please, please.  I don't want to hear any more!"

• "Body Parts Buyers Were 'Scalping the Babies,' Planned Parenthood Trial Reveals"--PJ Media. The scalps were ostensibly being used to research cures to baldness.