The Lewis and Clark Humane Society is taking part in an international effort to rescue dogs from South Korea.
Nine Korean dogs are currently at the Humane Society and will be made available for adoption into Montana homes.
If you support a dog trafficing “humane society” with your donations — stop.
Things you’ll never see on the CBC.
US stats of course, via Wretchard
Tonight something a little different: Fireworks by drone camera, set to Con Te Partiro, performed by Andrea Bocelli.
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1. heat chopstick in boiling water
2. lubricate well
3. hold penis 30 deg from horizontal
3. don't solicit advice over Twitter— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 9, 2016
Organic farming is sold as good for the environment. This is correct for a single farm field: organic farming uses less energy, emits less greenhouse gasses, nitrous oxide and ammonia and causes less nitrogen leeching than a conventional field. But each organic field yields much, much less. So, to grow the same amount of wheat, spinach or strawberries, you need much more land. That means that average organic produce results in the emission of about as many greenhouse gasses as conventional produce; and about 10 per cent more nitrous oxide, ammonia and acidification. Worse, to produce equivalent quantities, organic farms need to occupy 84 per cent more land – land which can’t be used for forests and genuine nature reserves. For example, to produce the amount of food America does today, but organically, would require increasing its farmland by the size of almost two United Kingdoms. That is the equivalent of eradicating all parklands and wild lands in the lower 48 states.
Associated Press: South Korea said that North Korea on Saturday test-fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its eastern coast.
Clinton’s Cannon Fodder: Agitators hurl rocks at Phoenix police, chant ‘we should shoot you’
Related:
I see that Twitter added emoji fists to the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag – One of those fists looks familiar pic.twitter.com/LTUGH1udCq
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) July 9, 2016
To launch tonight’s tips thread, an oldie and goodie — Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb. Thread open.
The scientific method, illustrated;
[A] researcher who provided key evidence of (non-celiac disease) gluten sensitivity recently published follow-up papers that show the opposite. […]
The subjects cycled through high-gluten, low-gluten, and no-gluten (placebo) diets, without knowing which diet plan they were on at any given time. In the end, all of the treatment diets – even the placebo diet – caused pain, bloating, nausea, and gas to a similar degree. It didn’t matter if the diet contained gluten. (Read more about the study.)
“In contrast to our first study… we could find absolutely no specific response to gluten,” Gibson wrote in the paper. A third, larger study published this month has confirmed the findings.
Bravo.
The Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion and how it works.
Well, in their own legislative way: GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill BANNING EPA Officials From Airline Travel
The amendment is likely an effort to get EPA officials to practice what they preach. Republicans have criticized top EPA officials for logging thousands of air travel miles while issuing regulations on how much carbon dioxide can be emitted by power plants, cars and other sources.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and the head of EPA’s clean air office Janet McCabe both said they travel home from Washington, D.C. on weekends to visit their families. McCarthy regularly goes to Boston, Massachusetts, and McCabe heads out to Indianapolis, Indiana on weekends.
McCabe has also spent a lot of time travelling around the country promoting the agency’s so-called Clean Power Plan — a set of rules aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
Now pass it, dammit.
A referendum on any proposed change to how we elect our government is a must. Not only because such a change requires the consent of the governed, but doing so would require the Liberals to actually define what the change is going to be.
Liberal opposition to a plebiscite more likely stems from the fear it would go decidedly against them, and ruin their chance to gerrymander the electoral system to favour the election of future Liberal governments.
There has been a deluge of anti-cop threats on Twitter, many of which calling for the mass murder of police officers.
Hatred towards police is nothing we haven’t seen on the timelines of Twitter before, but the past three days have brought an onslaught of highly violent calls to action. A search query for phrases such as “kill pigs” “kill police” and such pulls back thousands of posts. Many of these are blatant threats to all police, regardless of their relevance to past incidents.
Two unnamed British athletes born male are reportedly set to become the first transgender women to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio, and preparation to hail this human-rights breakthrough is already underway. But what the Olympic Committee and the media are loath to discuss is that their system for allowing transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category is ripe for abuse.
Let’s hope they’re boxers. The more multi-billion dollar institutions turned into laughingstocks to accommodate this insanity, the better.
Black Power group claims responsibility for Dallas police murders.
The crowd of crustaceans was caught on camera by 24-year-old Brian Slepian, who came across the crabs around 10:45 p.m. at the 45th Street subway station in Sunset Park.
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Live coverage here
One suspect reported in custody, the second one reported barricaded somewhere.
Update: More shots fired at police
Update 2: Oh, who knows. The scene is total confusion as one would expect.
Global temperatures have plummeted more than 0.5C this year, and are falling 2nd fastest in the satellite record pic.twitter.com/WD1lXjicaN
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) July 7, 2016
The forgotten other U.S. terror attack on LGBT:
Yet the American government never treated the Brown murders as acts of domestic terrorism as they are calling the Orlando massacre at the gay nightclub. And perhaps because media reporting of the Brown case was so scattered, episodic, and highly localized, most of us have never even heard of it in a way that would have afforded the nation an opportunity to comfort the families of the victims, who also were targeted because they were LGBT. Neither were the families given the benefit of a formal federal declaration as to WHY their loved ones died: the retribution of radical Islam. And lastly, when federal authorities declare an act of terrorism, full investigations tend to unfold for co-conspirators, foreign connections, lessons learned, intelligence failures and so on… Without a terrorism acknowledgement, it’s unclear if this case ever prompted such all-important introspective treatment, or more importantly, rolled up other cocked and loaded Islamic extremists.