News of the World

• Wendy's has come up with a clever idea to drive customers to its competitors at lunch and dinner. It is planning on introducing dynamic pricing where the price will be increased during busy periods and reduced during slow period. It will be rolling out the plan in 2025 in conjunction with digital menus. 
• The Odysseus moon lander will be switched off tomorrow. It fell over on its side and has been unable to use its solar panels to recharge. 
• A New York state appellate court has struck down a New York City law allowing non-citizens to vote, saying it is unconstitutional. If it had been allowed to stand, it would have allowed 800,000 aliens to vote in municipal elections (but only municipal elections--wink, wink). But the court agreed that the law impermissibly diluted the votes of citizens (i.e., disenfranchised citizens).
• The New Scientist magazine asserts that it is racist to believe cannibalism is morally wrong. To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, Soylent Green was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
• H.L. Mencken once wrote: "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." That seems apropos given this news story: "A mother in Manitoba, Canada, has revealed that teenage students at her son’s school were being provided with wooden phalluses, condoms, and a cartoon flip book featuring gay sex art as part of their 'sex education.'" But we're expected to believe that they're not coming after our children.
• Biden's public bragging of good sex with his wife could be a sign of dementia according to experts. Or maybe its a sign of his controlling and cruel nature, by embarrassing his wife. 
• Pope Francis is blaming extreme cold weather in Mongolia on global warming. Heretical scientists disagree:

    Despite the pope’s assertion that skepticism regarding the climate crisis is “perverse,” a group of over 1,600 prominent scientists (including two Nobel Prize winners) have dared to disagree with him, in a joint statement declaring that there is no “climate emergency.”

    In the “World Climate Declaration,” the scientists asserted that climate models have proven inadequate for predicting global warming, that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant, and that climate change has not increased natural disasters.

    The text noted that the world has warmed “significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing” and the gap between the real world and the modeled world “tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.”

    “There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent,” the document declares. “However, there is ample evidence that CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.”

    “There is no climate emergency,” the text declared. “Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.”

    “We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. Go for adaptation instead of mitigation; adaptation works whatever the causes are,” it added.

• This is the way: "Idaho to execute death row killer Thomas Eugene Creech by lethal injection on Wednesday - 50 years after he was arrested for murdering five people across three states." He's probably killed far more than 5. Of course, there are the bleeding hearts that believe he is a changed man, including some of the staff at the state prison where he is incarcerated. But others that have met him have described a palpable evil when in his presence. I tend to believe the latter.
• Should this be the way? "Taliban publicly executes murderer by shooting him five times in front of his victim's family and thousands of spectators in football stadium."