Category: Mischief Is Important

A Climate Change Poll Goes Horribly Wrong

But first, this message from the poll sponsors;

A large group of Canadian climate scientists, environment advocates, business owners and corporate executives want climate change to be the No. 1 issue for voters this fall, including problems and solutions beyond the federal carbon tax.
 
A hundred of them signed an open letter to Canadians this week, urging them to understand the impacts of climate change and the solutions each party offers before casting their ballots in October.
 
Those behind the letter fear important discussions about climate change are being lost in the sea of political rhetoric for or against a national carbon price.
 
“It’s a national emergency,” said Gavin Pitchford, the CEO of recruiting firm Delta Management and executive director of Clean50.

Heh.

h/t BC

Y2Kyoto: Self-Cleaning Oven Hour

When people come together, even the smallest action counts:

BC Hydro says there was a 0.2 per cent increase in energy consumption during Earth Hour last year.
 
So BC Hydro spokesperson Tanya Fish said there was no point in tracking electricity use during Earth Hour this year.
 
“The change in energy consumption during Earth Hour over recent years had been so minimal, so we found it difficult to attribute it to the event,” she said after Saturday’s Earth Hour came and went.

Don’t ever let them tell you that one little arc welder can’t make a difference.

You Might Be In Asskatchewan

National Post;

Railroad worker David Assman (pronounced OSS-men) of Melville, Sask., first tried to put his last name on a licence plate in the 1990s, but had it rejected as “profanity.” A recent application was again denied on the grounds that his last name is “offensive, suggestive or not in good taste.”
 
“I think they are too worried that people are going to have hurt feelings about something that is complete nonsense,” Assman told the National Post by direct message. “Even if it wasn’t my last name who is it going to hurt?”
 
Saskatchewan Government Insurance, like all provincial authorities in charge of vanity licence plates, kiboshes any applications that have a whiff of sexuality, drug reference, politics or religiosity.

Huh. Ok, then…

Har.

US Mid-Term Prediction Contest

All 435 seats are being contested in the House, while 35 in the Senate are up for grabs. Current seat distribution:

House (435)
235 Republican
193 Democrat
7 vacant

Senate (35)
24* Democrat
9* Republican
2 Independent

(*corrected, sorry!)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to predict the outcome in both.

To make my job easier, please copy the structure provided above and edit accordingly, ensuring your numbers add up to 435 and 35 respectively.

Tie breaker: Predict the outcome of Menendez[D] vs Hugin[R] in New Jersey.

Winner (or winners) will receive their choice of a book from the SDA Free Book Library.

Related: Mid-term watch list.

Reference: Table of state, territorial, and federal results (Wikipedia)

No chatter on this thread, please. I’ll open a results watch thread later in the day.

ACME Prime

Update: Harmless. All of the devices carried a parody ISIS flag featuring comedian Larry the Cable Guy’s signature slogan, “git ‘er done,” NBC News reported late Wednesday.

Er.. yeah.

I’m not sure this event rises to the level of hoax, much less false flag. I’m leaning towards “prank”, myself.

They Want To Teach Your Children

An eye-widening guide to the world of the woke:

In the world of intersectional grievance hustling, citing dog-humping incidents as evidence of “rape culture” constitutes “very good work” and “excellent scholarship.” We also learn that an aversion to transsexuality can be “challenged” with “receptive penetrative sex toy use.” Oh, and it turns out that you can impress a peer-reviewed feminist social work journal with chapters of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

The whole thing, with video.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Live by the tweet… die by the tweet.

On Thursday afternoon, the Anti-Defamation League reported that a white supremacist group claimed ties with Nikolas Cruz, who confessed to the shooting spree that killed at least 17 people, including many high-school students, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“A spokesperson for the white supremacist group Republic of Florida (ROF) told the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday, February 15, that Nikolas Cruz [….] was associated with his group,” the ADL reported. The ADL quoted a man named Jordan Jereb, who runs the small group, which is based in Tallahassee.
“Jereb added that ROF had not ordered or wanted Cruz to do anything like the school shooting,” the ADL wrote in a blog post that was quickly picked up by ABC News and The Associated Press, and later percolated through dozens of other media outlets.

Mischief is important.

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