Off to Europe!

I'll be traveling in Europe for the next two weeks to attend two conferences. I've been invited to speak on the mind and neuroscience in Poland and Florence. Should be very interesting and a lot of fun!

I'm taking my youngest (college-age) daughter with me, so it'll be a great father-daughter time as well. We'll take a side trip to Rome, and spend a day at the Vatican. I've long dreamed of attending Mass at St. Peter's!

There are posts in queue each day, and I've tried to make them as topical as I can. I may be commenting a bit less for a couple of weeks, due to the travel.

"Woman's health"?

Lauren Rankin at Rolling Stone:

2014's Most Outrageous Attacks on Women's Health (So Far)

Orwellian swill. The issue at hand is abortion, not "choice", and abortion is indeed a matter of women's health, in the sense that 25 million very young women have had their lives snuffed out by this homicidal practice in the U.S. since 1973. A similar number of very young men have been killed in a similar fashion.

Around the world, there are 100 million missing women, mostly in Asia, mostly because of sex-selective abortions (and female infanticide) motivated by mandatory birth control policies in countries like China and India.

Abortion is the greatest selective killer of women in human history. It is very much a women's health issue, and the killers of women are people like Lauren Rankin who shill for this barbarous practice and employ the Orwellian phrase "women's health" to defend it. 

Prelude to an IRS audit

Elementary school teacher publicly disses Common Core:

‘Today was the first day I was ever ashamed to be a teacher’

Common Core is merely an opportunity for education elites to gain power and make sure the indoctrination of our kids is airtight, as well as provide a lucrative opportunity for government contracting and product placement. The guy has balls to call it out.

Somewhere there's a light on in an IRS office, working late. 

'All the Genitalia and Melanin Fit to Print'

Kevin Williamson has a scintillating take on the circus going on at the New York Times.

Excerpt:

We conservatives like to beat up on the New York Times, and it gives us many, many reasons to do so, not least its sanctimony, which is on unfortunate display during this episode. But cities and countries need newspapers, and we criticize theTimes as much for what it fails to do as for the offenses it gives. I only wish that the paper were as excited about its intellectual standards as it is about the genital configuration of its editor. 

The Newspaper of Record unceremoniously dumps its female editor, after paying her a fraction of what it paid her male predecessor, to hire a black editor.

No doubt transgender candidates are getting hopeful. Their time is coming!

Who cares about intellectual standards and journalistic integrity, when there's so much race and sex to worry about. 

Islam, again

Another Islamic atrocity:

Sudanese Christians have condemned the sentencing of a Christian woman to death by hanging after she married a Christian man. 

Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, refused to recant her Christian faith as ordered by the court.
A doctor who is eight months pregnant and currently in detention with her 20-month-old son, Ibrahim was charged with adultery last year. Recently, the court added an apostasy charge when she declared her Christian faith in court. 

"This is very disturbing," said Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Adwok of Khartoum. 

Born of a Muslim father and an Orthodox Christian mother, Ibrahim married Daniel Wani, a South Sudanese Christian with U.S. citizenship, in 2012.

Curious what you're missing? Request asample issue of NCR. 

Adwok said he could not understand why the sentence was issued when the 2005 Interim National Constitution allowed freedom of religion throughout the country. 

"She had openly declared her Christian faith," Adwok said. "I don't think it's right to deny her that freedom." 

But the Sudanese minister for information, Ahmed Bilal Osman, told Agence France-Presse that Sudan is not unique in its law against apostasy. 

"In Saudi Arabia, in all the Muslim countries, it is not allowed at all for a Muslim to change his religion," he said.

Muslims sentence a pregnant woman to death for converting to Christianity.

*sigh*

Around the world, even "enlightened" Muslims remain silent about the death penalty for apostasy, which is a crime against humanity.

We Christians need to wake up and understand what we're facing. Between Islamic and atheist fascists, we are facing persecution on a massive scale.

Please pray for Ms. Ibrahim, that her courage and her faith in the Lord will not cost her her life. 

'The End is Near'-- but from whom?

It seems that humanity isn't listening to our science masters:

But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me? 

Preeminent scientists are warning about serious threats to human life in the not-distant future, including climate change and superintelligent computers. Most people don't care...

I wonder why it is that people don't seem to care when scientists tell them that the apocalypse is upon us?

Perhaps it's because people remember the Malthusian apocalypses, and the Eugenic apocalypses, and the Pesticide apocalypses, and the Overpopulation apocalypses, and the Global Cooling apocalypses, and the Acid Rain apocalypses, and the Heterosexual AIDS apocalypses.

Scientists have been shoveling bullshit for a couple of centuries now, and people are smart enough to know when government contractors (which is what scientists are) hype imminent catastrophes to gin up funding and draw attention to themselves.

If the death toll from Malthusian policies and Eugenic cleansing and DDT deprivation and 'One Child' crimes against humanity in developing countries (upwards of a couple hundred million deaths) is taken as a prelude, the real extinction threat humanity faces is from scientists themselves.  

Just when you thought she couldn't get any worse...

Hillary Clinton's Boko Haram problem

Excerpt:

from 2011 through early 2013, the Clinton State Department repeatedly rejected efforts to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. In recent weeks, the group has exploded onto the world stage by kidnapping more than 250 girls at a Nigerian boarding school. 

It is so clearly and vividly a terrorist organization that it seems indefensible that the State Department would have refused to designate it as such.

All of the usual excuses will be offered: just a judgement call, not all information was available, what difference does it make now, etc.

Another explanation is obvious, but won't be pursued, unfortunately. I think it's the most likely explanation.

The Clintons are a crime family, like the Gambinos, only more violent and less ethical. They have deep ties to international gangsters. Hillary's body servant has intimate blood ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hillary's tenure at State has not been a disaster for everyone. The Muslim Brotherhood has prospered, and radical Islamists (ya' know, the kind with the unlimited untraceable funds who have close relatives  in Hillary's bedroom) have done very well under Hillary's watch.

Perhaps Boko Haram was kept off the terrorism list for reasons unrelated to their exemplary behavior.

How could I say such a thing! Since when would the Clintons cooperate with terrorists and criminals for their own personal gain? Since when would the Clintons associate with people who pay money for favors?

Wouldn't you love to have the Clinton's banking records during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State, when she presided over one victory after another of oil-rich Muslim terrorists?

Will we find out the truth here? Dream on. This is America 2014. The government knows everything about you, not the other way around.