Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[AlabamAlum]

Currently enjoying life sipping warm apple bourbon cider at a bar. May respond later. May not!

Warm apple bourbon cider? Jesus Christ, are you estrogen-loading for the gay olympics? DSL, my expectations for you were low, but holy fuck.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Hark!

The banshee cry heralds the death of one Mr. AlabamAlum O'Hoolihan, son of Erin's Isle, slain by my wit.

[Da Geezer]

Total of 27 articles (all printed, you don't have to look them up) with erroneous climate predictions. Pretty interesting regarding global cooling.:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

Add to this list:

1. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
2. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
3. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
4. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
5. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
6. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
7. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
8. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
9. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
10. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
11. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
12. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
13. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
14. 1970s: Killer Bees!

we have 41 to here

42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter

[Hannibal]

https://www.axios.com/new-york-city-health-board-racism-public-health-crisis-7bf0a698-a54a-4dbe-8e53-b8a25fa2b0bd.html

New York City health board declares racism a public health crisis

The New York City Board of Health has declared racism a public health crisis.

Why it matters: NYC Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi noted in a statement after the resolution passed Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic had "magnified inequities, leading to suffering disproportionately borne by communities of color in our City and across our nation," but such inequities aren't inevitable.

• N.Y. State Sen. Brand Hoylman (D) said in a statement the "combined effect of institutional racism and the COVID-19 pandemic on Black and Brown New Yorkers represent an urgent call to action which we can no longer ignore as a government or society."
• The resolution comes six months after the CDC declared racism "a serious public health threat," highlighting the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on communities of color, such as case and death counts, as well as economic and social effects.

The big picture: The NYC board's resolution requests that the city Health Department research and acknowledge "examples of its historic role in divesting and underinvesting in critical community-led health programs" and "participate in a truth and reconciliation process with communities harmed by these actions when possible," per a statement.

• The NYC Health Department will create a Data for Equity internal working group in response to the resolution to address racial inequities and improve health outcomes, making recommendations for revisions to a health charter in the newly established Mayoral Racial Justice Commission.

The bottom line: Chokshi, one of 11 medical experts who sit on the NYC board, pointed out at a meeting ahead of the resolution passing how the pandemic underscored unnecessary disparities, the New York Times notes.

• "Why do some nonwhite populations develop severe disease and die from COVID-19 at higher rates than whites?” he said, according to the NYT. "Underlying health conditions undoubtedly play a role.
• "But why are there higher rates of hypertension, diabetes and obesity in communities of color? The answer does not lie in biology.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Total of 27 articles (all printed, you don't have to look them up) with erroneous climate predictions. Pretty interesting regarding global cooling.:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

Add to this list:

1. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
2. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
3. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
4. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
5. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
6. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
7. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
8. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
9. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
10. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
11. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
12. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
13. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
14. 1970s: Killer Bees!

we have 41 to here

42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter

Fear monkeys gunna fear monkey...

[Hannibal]

The Ku Klux Klan is secretly adding trans fats and extra sugar to food in minority communities.

[THE_WIZARD_]

...sneaky little bastages...

[Hannibal]

Allison Williams has been fired from ESPN for refusing the jab.

[CGVT]

Good

[Dr. Strangelove]

Both of the lawsuits against Texas for SB8 granted cert just now. Put on an expedited schedule and will hear arguments on Nov. 1, a week from Monday. Court won't block the law in the meantime.

Here's the order in the USA vs. Texas case (the other one was an abortion clinic vs. Texas). Question will be solely related to whether the USA can even obtain an injunction in these circumstances.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a85_5h25.pdf

[Dr. Strangelove]

Allison Williams has been fired from ESPN for refusing the jab.

She's already been hired by the Daily Wire, lol

[lineygoblue]

As she should be.

Nobody should lose their job over refusing a shot.

Even Joe Biden.

[crashcourse]

Allison Williams has been fired from ESPN for refusing the jab.

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apocalypse coming

[Kapture1]

Kapture1 and CGVT liked this.

apocalypse coming

I like it because she didn't compromise her principles. He likes it because she was fired for not doing something he wants forced on her and everyone.

which sounds like an American and which sounds like an authoritarian?

[Dr. Strangelove]

A highly-anticipated nonpartisan report on Wisconsin’s 2020 election has found no widespread voter fraud or wrongdoing, but made dozens of recommendations for updating state policies and state laws related to elections.

The 168-page audit by the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau, initially ordered by the GOP-controlled Legislature in February, was released Friday morning. It found the Wisconsin Elections Commission didn’t follow some state laws in 2020, including things like failing to get electronic voter registration signatures from transportation officials, but that there weren’t widespread instances of people committing voter fraud or officials’ actions affecting large numbers of votes.

For example, the review flagged only four people who may have voted twice in the election and 11 people whose absentee ballots may have been counted, even though they died before Election Day. There were more than 3.3 million ballots cast in the election in Wisconsin. The review also conducted a hand count of ballots to test some voting machines and found no notable concerns.

Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Green Bay, who chairs the Legislature’s audit committee, said in a tweet Friday that the review "showed us that the election was largely safe and secure."

"The (audit bureau) has been well-respected as a nonpartisan agency by both sides of the aisle & by their colleagues around the US," Cowles said in a subsequent tweet. "It’s my hope that we can now look at election law changes & agency accountability measures in a bipartisan manner based on these nonpartisan recommendations."

https://www.wpr.org/nonpartisan-revi...despread-fraud