The smell of meat on the grill is a “pleasing aroma” or a “sweet savour” to the God of the Torah and the Holy Bible, but to the climate “scientists” at the NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory, it’s indicative of “volatile” compounds in the air, a sign of “urban air pollution” that needs regulating, and they’re calling it: “cooking emissions.”
Author: Blazingcatfur
The Great Panic
Ever since the Hamas attacks on October 7th, 2023, the American empire has been convulsed by increasingly deranged tremors. The Israelis adopted a policy that on the surface makes little sense. All it has done is poison relations with the Arabs and much of the world. In America, both political parties have gone nuts in response to the attacks, Israel’s response, and the reaction to that response. Peak madness may be Lindsey Graham suggesting Israel uses nukes on Gaza.
Interesting article that try’s to make sense of a very confused field of play.
America’s most embarrassing man: Jussie Smollett isn’t charismatic, he’s just cringe
Spring, the season of rebirth, is as good a moment as any to review the second lives of the formerly cancelled. Some are faring better than others: Louis C.K., for one, is fully back in business, albeit after taking a multi-million dollar financial hit for his masturbatory scandal circa 2017. Roseanne Barr, who lost her TV series over a racist (and allegedly Ambien-induced) tweet is now a moderately successful podcaster, as well as a cast member on a new, “anti-woke” animated series from The Daily Wire. Shane Gillis, fired from Saturday Night Live over offensive comments, was welcomed back to the stage as host this year, a sure sign that all was forgiven.
These are the success stories, the comebacks, the triumphs over adversity. But then, in a category all his own, there’s Jussie Smollett.
Will a Lawsuit Take Down Hamas’ Collaborators in the U.S.?
Good news on the lawfare front: one of the largest American law firms, Greenberg Traurig, has taken on the case of nine survivors of the October 7 attacks, both Americans and Israelis and has just filed a lawsuit on their behalf against both the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its parent organization, AJP Educational Foundation, Inc., also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), for being collaborators with, and propagandists for, Hamas…
JK Rowling has every right to call a man a man
Once again, it has fallen to the bestselling author of children’s fantasy novels to give the rest of the adult world a reality check. JK Rowling is back in the news because she dared to refer to a man as a man.
Education in Canada: A Country at Risk
Relevant for today’s Canada is the 1983 U.S. report, “A Nation at Risk”: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
The continuity of civilization and national prosperity depends on the education of next generations and their preparation as a capable and willing labour force. But many employers find Canadian-born youth lacking the required education, skills, and work ethic. That’s one reason for lagging business investment and corresponding productivity.
Three firms tied to ArriveCan app got $1-billion in federal contracts, Ottawa reveals
Three government contractors involved in developing the ArriveCan app have received hundreds of federal contracts worth more than $1-billion over the past 13 years.
Until now, the federal government has not been able to provide a clear breakdown of how much contract work the three companies have been awarded. The new numbers were provided to MPs on the public accounts committee and a copy was obtained by The Globe and Mail.
Canada’s Gun ‘Emergency’ Not So Urgent After All
While there are profound similarities between Canada and the United States, we would do well to remember that those cultural similarities simply hide the profound differences. And, of course, there are governmental differences as well.
For example, they don’t have a Second Amendment. There is nothing there to limit the government and preserve the right to keep and bear arms.
More than that, though, in the wake of Nova Scotia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that he needed to unilaterally do something about guns. It was an emergency.
An op-ed at the Canadian publication The Globe and Mail, however, is questioning that now.
Rahim Mohamed: Mélanie Joly pretending a Palestinian state exists won’t make it so
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly joined the chorus of elite voices calling for an independent Palestinian state on Friday. On the heels of Canada’s abstention from a vote earlier in the day on Palestinian membership in the United Nations, she tweeted, “Canada is prepared to recognize the State of Palestine at the time most favorable to a lasting peace, not at the last step along the path.”
WTF?
INSANE: College students are so brainwashed by gender ideology that they're willing to donate their own t*sticles to a trans person to "fight toxic masculinity."
📹@Simply_Shula pic.twitter.com/BDLRq6zhwN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
Asking minorities to take a breathalyzer is racist
Canada’s government should review breathalyzer laws to protect minorities, defence lawyer says
… In 2018, the federal government changed the law to allow police to use breathalyzer tests at traffic stops even if they don’t suspect a driver is visibly impaired, which paved the way for these new mandatory testing rules.
Defence lawyer Michael Spratt says the feds should revisit this idea because there aren’t safeguards to help protect minorities.
“Police disproportionately pull over racialized and visible minority drivers,” Spratt said, adding that police can use traffic stops as an unfair avenue to search cars and question people, and it’s easy for white drivers to support the change when they’re not getting pulled over several times in a short period.
WTF?
Do you ever eat your feelings?
Just curious. pic.twitter.com/mYhdkl1a6E
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 13, 2024
Signatures of alien technology could be how humanity first finds extraterrestrial life
If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs – could be a beacon signifying the presence of life.
We are two astronomers who work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – or SETI. In our research, we try to characterize and detect signs of technology originating from beyond Earth. These are called technosignatures. While scanning the sky for a TV broadcast of some extraterrestrial Olympics may sound straightforward, searching for signs of distant, advanced civilizations is a much more nuanced and difficult task than it might seem.
Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in five key battleground states, new polls show
Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in five crucial battleground states less than six months out from election day, new polls showed.
The surveys from the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College put the former president up in Pennsylvania (three points), Arizona (seven), Michigan (seven), Georgia (10) and Nevada (12). Biden led by two points in Wisconsin.
The navy is looking at deploying ‘ghost fleets’ — warships that don’t need crews
The Canadian military is weighing how many and what kind of “optionally-crewed” warships it will need in the future as drone technology and artificial intelligence change the face of naval combat, says the commander of the navy.
Vice-Admiral Angus Tophee told CBC News that while navies will always need large combat surface ships and submarines, Canada’s allies have started to experiment with automated vessels.