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   I chastise the few Customers I have still running it constantly, for clinging on to that RELIC~Windows 7, @mountaineer, it's a bi1ch to support
I know. They keep reminding me it isn't supported and I must upgrade. For our purposes, though, and for the time being, here we'll stay.
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Nigerian army rescues 350 hostages, many of them women and children, from extremist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. Associated Press: Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria
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... The 209 children, 135 women and six men appeared exhausted in their worn-out clothes. Some of the girls had babies believed to have been born from forced marriages, as is often the case with female victims who are either raped or forced to marry the militants while in captivity. ...
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Texas Scorecard by  Will Biagini   | May 21, 2024

The lawsuit marks Paxton’s 75th legal action against the Biden administration.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against multiple agencies and individuals in the Biden administration to curb their ploy to redefine the word “sex” in the workplace.

In late April of this year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a guidance that would effectively redefine the meaning of “sex” in Title XII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

This would effectively prohibit employers from regulating bathroom usage and dress codes based on biological sex and would instead require them to make accommodations based on “gender identity,” according to a press release by the Texas attorney general.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/federal/texas-sues-biden-administration-to-stop-redefinition-of-sex/
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UPDATE May 22, 2024

Kenya will begin to deploy police officers to Haiti to lead a UN-authorized multinational mission to quell gang violence. The officers—some of whom have experience fighting Islamist insurgent groups near Somalia—will constitute 1,000 of the 2,500-person security force that is largely financed by the US. CNN: Kenyan officials arrive in Haiti ahead of planned security mission, sources say

Kenya's decision to deploy officers comes after a series of court-ordered delays and as Haiti’s main airport reopened for the first time in three months. In addition to Kenya, a number of countries have offered personnel for the mission, including the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Chad, and Jamaica.
 Reuters: Kenyan lawyers move to block police deployment to Haiti

More than 1,500 people have been killed in Haiti so far this year, and hundreds of thousands have fled as gangs control 80% of the capital of Port-au-Prince. One of them—the Crips-inspired 5 Segonn—is among the country’s leading cocaine traffickers, with ties to the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s then-president. NYT: How a Haitian Gang Is Trying to Turn Itself Into a Militia

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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 5/22/24
« Last post by Polly Ticks on Today at 12:00:34 pm »
Thanks, Pookie.
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Jokes and Humor / Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2024
« Last post by Slide Rule on Today at 11:45:10 am »
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Any first responder employment should require staff to maintain peak physical fitness or look for another job.

Tired of these out-of-shape lazy people being unable to perform the very basic, fundamentals of their job due to weight problems.

Also, they deserve some jail time for doing this!

https://conservativeus.com/video-this-is-criminal-look-at-these-lazy-emt-wokies-in-new-york-helping-a-stroke-victim/
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Climate Research Paper Finds Tropical Storm Variability Linked Mostly To Oceanic Cycles
By P Gosselin on 21. May 2024

It’s the oceans, stupid (not CO2)!

The latest climate information video released by the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents a recent paper by Huang et al appearing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters: “Contrasting Responses of Atlantic and Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability”

The paper examines the influences of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) on global tropical cyclones (TCs)

The north Atlantic undergoes approximately 60-year cycles of warmer and colder than normal sea surface temperatures. These changes in thermal surface energy play a role on modulating climate globally, especially in combination with other oceanic cycles.

https://notrickszone.com/2024/05/21/climate-research-paper-finds-tropical-storm-variability-linked-mostly-to-oceanic-cycles/
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The Guardian is Confused, 1.5°C of Warming is Not Catastrophic
 
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Linnea Lueken
May 20, 2024
 

A recent article at The Guardian, “Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like,” claims that 1.5°C of warming, while not the end of the world, still will have many catastrophic effects on the planet, including the death of tropical corals, intense storms, and ice sheet collapse. This is false. There is no evidence that 1.5°C will have any of these effects, this is mere fearmongering.

The article is somewhat confused in its presentation, claiming at once that passing the 1.5°C limit will lead to “catastrophic heatwaves, floods, and storms,” while also saying it is not a “cliff-edge leading to a significant change in climate damage.” Catastrophe certainly sounds like “significant change,” and later comments further confuse the point. It’s important to note that, according to the E.U.’s climate and weather agency Copernicus, the average annual temperature has already exceeded 1.48°C the pre-industrial benchmark. Also, data from the longest continuously running temperature network indicates that Europe has already exceeded a 2.0℃ temperature rise with no appreciable negative climate impacts.

In an interactive graphic in the center of the article, the 1.5°C warming “benchmark” is claimed to be the point at which “heatwaves and storms intensify, tropical corals die off and tipping points for ice sheet collapse and permafrost thawing may be triggered.”

There are no citations or sources given for these claims. Luckily, Climate Realism has dug into the available data in previous posts on all of the mentioned subjects.

https://climaterealism.com/2024/05/the-guardian-is-confused-1-5c-of-warming-is-not-catastrophic/
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This is absolutely pathetic for a sitting President.
The “most votes in history!”

The question is, whose gonna stop the steal of the election? Republicans didn’t stop it last time and I doubt they’ll stop it this time.
https://www.rightjournalism.com/video-this-was-the-crowd-biden-drew-in-new-hampshire-tonight-paint-drying-could-do-better-than-this/
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