"More than 40,000 Irish cows are in danger of being on the receiving end of an “animal welfare catastrophe,” according to one farming politician...
According to theUnited Nations Environment Programme, excess nitrate in the environment “exacerbates climate change and depletes the ozone layer.”
Nitrates enter the environment “from the use of synthetic fertilizers, the discharge of wastewater or the combustion of fossil fuels,” according to the UNEP, all of which would obviously be connected with dairy farming.
Thus, the purported need to reduce the number of cattle per hectare. (A hectare is 10,000 square meters, or about 2.5 acres — just under 12,000 square yards.)
1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.
1894 - The time clock was patented by Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, NY.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force of approximately 58 megatons.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
2001 - In New York City, U.S. President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has injected $2 billion into AI start-up Anthropic. Anthropic is generally considered a rival to Open AI, which is the company behind ChatGPT that has become well-known over the past year.
The Daily Mail reported that Anthropic's CEO and co-founder, Dario Amodei, claimed earlier this week that AI has anywhere between a 10 and 25 percent chance of destroying humanity.
"Just a random thought this morning… How many of Marilyn Monroe’s problems were really caused by her difficult childhood and her difficult marriages? I guess some would call this an “unpopular opinion” - but I attribute it to her acting classes at the actors studio. She had starred in some of her greatest starring roles by the end of 1954, before she took any of those stupid classes, which occupied her for much of 1955. Gentlemen prefer blondes, how to marry a millionaire, monkey business and the seven year itch all pre-dated her idiotic decision in 1955 to go to New York and study The Method.
I think method acting warps the minds of most of the people who study it.
It doesn’t make them better actors; it makes them nuts.
Canada's Trudeau government recently released its fourth annual report on the northern nation's assisted-suicide regime, providing startling insights into the staggering number of lives that have been snuffed out by the state in recent years.
Last year, 4.1% of all deaths across the country were the result of state-facilitated suicide, up almost one point over 2021.
Hundreds of victims weren't moribund at the time of their executions. Previous reports have also cast doubt on whether all of these victims were voluntary or eligible.
Detroit — The city of Detroit has canceled $1 million in clean-up contracts with an outside firm after the company was found to be affiliated with Bobby Ferguson, a former controversial contractor who was convicted of extorting millions of dollars in city contracts a decade ago...Staffing Equipment Evolution was linked to Ferguson, 54, who served eight years of a 21-year federal prison sentence for helping friend and former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick turn City Hall into a criminal enterprise.
Bianca Bush, Ferguson's daughter, owns Staffing Equipment Solutions, and it shares a business address with Ferguson’s company on Wyoming Street in Detroit...
"Bobby Ferguson’s name did not appear on any of the bid proposals and city staff had no indication he had any relationship with SEE during the performance of those contracts," mayor's spokesman John Roach said...
At the same time, Honda ditched plans to co-develop electric vehicles with GM. The goal was to produce a brand that could be sold for under $30,000, but Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said the market was too unpredictable, so the plans were canceled.
"After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV," Mibe told Bloomberg.
"Hamas heavyweight Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, was discovered living in London in a home bankrolled by UK citizens.
Here’s the kicker: he lives in a Jewish neighborhood. Apparently, living amongst Jews isn’t so bad if a huge chunk of your home is paid for with someone else’s cheddar.
Sawalha and his wife scored a tasty $136,500 taxpayer-funded kiss when they bought a two-story home in London for $390,000. The house is paid off.
Sawalha, who is wanted in Israel for being a member of Hamas, skedaddled to London using a cousin’s passport in the 1990s and snagged his own British passport in the early 2000s... But wait, there’s more.
"...marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals...crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty...focused on destroying the civilization they overran rather than peacefully integrating into and perpetuating the Empire...
The unity of these diverse peoples fused into a single culture that empowered Rome.
In contrast, the later disunity of hundreds of thousands of tribal people flooding into and dividing Rome doomed it.
To meet the challenge of a multiracial society, the only viable pathway to a stable civilization of racially and ethnically different people is a single, shared culture...
Some nations can find collective success as a single homogenous people like Japan or Switzerland.
Or equally, but with more difficulty, nations can prosper with heterodox peoples -- but only if united by a single, inclusive culture as the American melting-pot once attested.
But a baleful third option -- a multicultural society of diverse, unassimilated, and often rival tribes -- historically is a prescription for collective suicide.
We are beginning to see just that in America, as it sheds the melting pot, and adopts the salad bowl of unassimilated and warring tribes...
"The case against Secretary Granholm, as laid out by the supporting Republicans, consists of several major points:
Conflict of Interest: Granholm was accused of using her office to promote a company where she previously served on the board. This raises questions about the ethical boundaries between public service and private interests.
Failure to Secure Energy Independence: Rep. James argued that instead of securing American energy independence, Granholm is actually depleting it. He pointed out the sale of strategic petroleum reserves as one example.
Poor Track Record: Drawing from her time as Governor of Michigan, James labeled her policy history as one of failure, suggesting that this past performance has been a reliable indicator of her current actions.
Lack of Accountability: Both Rep. Norman and Rep. James emphasized that reducing Granholm’s salary is an exercise in accountability, which they see as lacking in the current regime.
James argues that this isn’t simply an act of political theater but a direct attempt to bring accountability into the government..
The narrative about January 6 is being used as a wedge that our ruling class mercilessly hammers to separate “good” and “respectable” Republicans who go along with it from — according to Joe Biden — “extremist,” “authoritarian,” “insurrectionist” Republicans who threaten the very soul of our nation.
But if anyone truly cares about justice under the law and our system of government, the question of what happened that day should not revolve around whether someone is a Democrat or a Republican or whatever they happen to think about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
All Americans should care about one thing above all else: the truth.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Education is bringing in a consulting group to help teachers “dismantle racism” from their math curricula.
"According to The Center Square, the board decided on October 25 to shell out $50,000 to Quetzal Education Consulting, which claims it readies teachers “to identify, disrupt, and replace white supremacy culture practices in math instruction with practices that center the wellness of students of color.”...
"Pro-Hamas protesters march in London (10/28/23). Credit: Sky News A massive pro-Hamas protest took place on Saturday in London, with videos showing what appears to be hundreds of thousands of people participating. The protesters demanded an end to hostilities against Hamas even after the terrorist government of Gaza slaughtered 1,400 Israelis on October 7th. Some shouted antisemitic chants while others held up signs that read things like "Queers for a free Palestine."...
A 50-year-old man was allowed to compete against teenage girls in a regional swimming competition in Canada, after swimming officials said they were simply going with national swimming guidelines.
A man named Nicholas J. Cepeda, who goes by "Melody Wiseheart," competed against young girls ages 13-17 at the Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre’s Fall Classic hosted at the Markham Pan Am Centre, near Toronto, Canada.
"Just a random thought this morning…
Detroit — The city of Detroit has canceled $1 million in clean-up contracts with an outside firm after the company was found to be affiliated with Bobby Ferguson, a former controversial contractor who was convicted of extorting millions of dollars in city contracts a decade ago...Staffing Equipment Evolution was linked to Ferguson, 54, who served eight years of a 21-year federal prison sentence for helping friend and former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick turn City Hall into a criminal enterprise.
"Hamas heavyweight Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, was discovered living in London in a home bankrolled by UK citizens. 
