SpankyMcFarland

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One small step for Mann… https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00396-y

You’d think they’d be aware of the optics, though, and award the contract to a larger outfit that might do some of the work itself. They seem to have been in talks with these guys already. Could they not have hired them merely to find a larger company or companies that wasn’t theirs which could do the work?

It’s not really. Not any more. We’re not a little colony at this stage. Charles found time to visit multiple countries around the world in Europe, Asia and Africa before he got sick. But not us. Which should tell you something: this relationship is on the DNR list.

I thought Quebeckers were monarchists? At least not keen on what Napoleon represented?

It sounds like a major scandal, a really real one and a god awful look for Trudeau. The only smidgin of mitigation I can see is that the app was set up more hurriedly than usual under the pressure of the pandemic. Why on earth would they engage, and massively compensate, a two person firm of comical amateurishness to hand out the contracts instead of doing it themselves? Who are these characters and what’s their connection to the Liberal Party? What we have to wonder is how many more ArriveCans there are in the procurement system that we don’t know about yet. And why is JT so quiet? The ship of state seems rudderless at the moment.

So the government isn’t spending enough? That sounds rather lefty to me.

Our wildfires aren’t considered in many of these emission charts: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wildfires-emissions-carbon-cop28/

So it’s more or less official. He ain’t coming this year: Note that our head of state already found time to visit countries where he isn’t the chief cook and bottle washer: Canadians don’t sound too pushed either way: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/king-charles-planned-visit-canada-170438685.html

Not only more likely to die but more likely to die of Covid 19? Have you got a link for that?

What a player Mahomes is. Once KC had solid defence the outcome was hard to avoid. Far closer than I expected though.

I am fully aware that we are just discussing stuff here. Nobody should take any of this seriously and very few will even read it. Where is the evidence that I am lying? That is such a childishly silly charge. I am telling you what I believe. Do I ever accuse you of lying? Of course not. I am sceptical of the article by McCullough firstly because I don’t believe many of his other claims about Covid. I am happy to look at any paper but unfortunately his come with a lot of baggage. As detailed in the review I included, one of the claims made about the persistence of spike protein in the article has already been denied by the actual author referenced. What is the reference to the other article? As with the first one I will first look to the authors to see what their expertise is and what their publishing history is. That matters in research, especially with claims that are controversial. Time is a wonderful judge of scientific claims. Of course, I have no idea how this will work out. We’ll see how it ages.

Anybody conducting a medical discussion who accuses those who disagree with them of lying is difficult to take seriously. For some reason you imagine you know what I think and claim I’m trying to conceal that truth. What I am saying here may well turn out to be inaccurate but I can assure you I believe it to be that case. You posted the article so let me first ask you, is that the same Peter McCullough whose wiki page I have posted? It sure looks like the same. Was Dr. McCullough correct in his claims about HCQ or invermectin? https://abcnews.go.com/US/group-physicians-combats-misinformation-unproven-covid-19-treatments/story?id=83097330 You should at least concede that the claims in the paper are already hotly disputed. https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/claim-myocarditis-covid-vaccines-carries-serious-risk-death-flawed-study/ What is the reference for the second article you refer to there?

The claims made in this article are dramatic and have been in the public domain for weeks but we don’t see them on the news or in major medical publications like the NEJM, Lancet or BMJ. Why is that? I suspect there is scepticism about the methods used and the authors involved. One of them, Jessica Rose, is described as an independent researcher which could apply to all sorts of people outside the field and another, Peter A. McCullough, is associated with a foundation that bears his name - a peculiar situation for a researcher. I found this wiki entry on a person with the same name which I presume is him. It does not inspire confidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough

I’m not getting a happy, contented vibe off most of the right-wingers here although I’m sure somebody will hotly object that they’re as serene as it’s humanly possible to be. There’s so much rage and doom-mongering with the right these days. It can’t be good for them.

That is true.

Putin will take whatever he can. That’s his mindset. He’s not very bright and he won’t change his thuggish outlook now. The Baltic states are preparing for war, as is Finland. If Trump wins and abandons NATO I fully expect a larger war in Europe started by Putin.

We are talking about the US economy on Planet Earth here, are we?

Actually, Netanyahu has been doing an excellent job of stopping that without any recent help from Hamas although he was friendlier with them once upon a time. He’s dedicated his political life to that cause, as well as taking bribes of course.

I’m not sure how people can claim the economy is worse than it was. By many measures it is improving. One key question - how are you personally doing? - elicits a much more positive response than questions about the economy in general. Most people are not economists and anyone watching Fox News would reasonably think America is in a catastrophically bad state. So the economy is doing quite well. However, Biden’s credibility took a serious whack today with the release of the special counsel’s report. https://apnews.com/article/biden-memory-age-special-counsel-report-doj-f4232bc8316e556ed467185b67c3e0a8 In this century at least, a political system on British lines tends to weed out those no longer hitting it out of the park at the major league level long before they reach Biden or Trump‘s condition. Regular televised debate with peers, under rules where misleading parliament is a serious matter, lets a lot of sunlight in. By contrast, America’s model looks as antiquated and unfit for purpose as its current leaders.

What if we just start by investigating whether incompetence was the cause? That’s far more likely to be the explanation when there is a serious intelligence failure, and there is a substantial body of evidence to back that theory of the matter up. Systems are imperfect. By contrast, conspiracies on this scale are fiendishly difficult to pull off and highly unlikely.

Have you ever described yourself that way to an ordinary British person?

I’m sure I value many of the things you do. I’m grateful we did not become part of the US. Countries can always be improved and should reflect the times they are in.

Then why support the monarchy? Even worse, some foreigner who has no real connection to this country?

There’s a difference between valuing one’s history and being a slave to it.