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I watched this and thought it was a load of old codswallop with Hegseth reading from a prepared script which was structured to paint Trump as the commander-in-chief who planned and coordinated the whole thing – – yeah right. Hegseth has his nose so far up trumps posterior, that it's embarrassing to listen to him. Trump is as dumb as a bag of rocks and has successfully bankrupted many of his companies and would have difficulty running a bath let alone overseeing an operation like this, but all due respect to the military involved, because they did a great and professional job. Trump painted himself into a corner and put himself "between a rock and a hard place" as the saying goes, because Iran was prepared to discuss a peace agreement provided Israel stopped their bombing, however Trump was not able to persuade Netanyahu to stop the bombing, because he is too weak, so the bombing continued and Iran refused to negotiate hence Trump taking the action he did. Make no mistake about it, this could have been avoided, but Trump could neither negotiate successfully with Netanyahu, or for that matter with Putin, which shows how much of a weak man he is, so now we have the current situation. Who knows what the outcome will be, but having been on this earth for nearly 78 years and have been involved in the war in Biafra as well as the revolution by Gaddafi where retribution was being sought on foreign citizens, I fear for citizens/soldiers of America and other countries (US allies) when the Iranians and their allies activate their retribution in one form or another.

Well I don't really go out in the sun much at all, however riding my scooter around has obviously resulted in the solar keratosis on my hands, so I should remind myself to put some suncream on whenever I go out on the scooter. I did ask the doctor about the basal cell carcinoma on my face and he said that some of the sun damage I had could well be as a result of exposure to the sun decades ago, so quite possibly in my days working in the desert – – something I never considered, but as I said previously, there was no such thing as "suncream" back then, or not that I had heard of anyway!

Yes and in my haste to post I omitted to include the fact that I had many (10+) solar keratosis burnt off at the same time with liquid nitrogen, as well as letting the dermatologist have a quick check on my back and neck etc. He also put a couple of stitches in as well. After my second visit he said a greater area had to be treated/excised so sent me to the Plastic Surgeon to carry this out. Now this Dr was great and said that he would treat me and would give me a "special price", which he did and it cost me the same price as the initial biopsy. And of course the hospital charges for everything these days, including taking your BP and all the other paraphernalia which they carry out in order to stack up the bill!

Phuket.

Now I come to think about it I did once use Aldara cream for the solar keratosis on the back of my hands, however I don't believe it would have worked on a basal cell carcinoma because of the depth and breadth of it, but thank you for reminding me about the Aldara.

Being very fair skinned and having ginger hair and also freckles in my youth, I am susceptible to sunburn in a short space of time and when I worked in Africa (the Sahara desert) sunscreen as we know it now, just wasn't around, so I never used it of course. Now every six months I go to the dermatologist at the hospital here who gives me the once over and often burns off a few solar keratosis spots on mostly my hand and my arms, whilst often giving me a check over. This time however I pointed out to him a small raised spot about the size of a match head which kept coming back on my cheek, no matter what I did with it, so he took a biopsy there and then, which wasn't cheap (22,000 baht) and put a couple of stitches in and told me to come back next week, which I did. He confirmed that it was a basal cell carcinoma and that they had to do a bigger excision to make sure that all of the cancer cells had been removed, so back I went and they removed a piece of skin which was quite deep and about the size of my forefinger, along with a total of eight stitches in all. Went back a few days ago to get the stitches removed and the biopsy result was good in as much as all of the cells had been excised, so another sum of money paid out and just waiting for the wound to completely heal now. Now this little spot I had on my cheek was the most unassuming spot and I would have never picked it as potentially cancerous...... so to all of the oldies on here and especially those who are fair skinned, my advice is to get regular skin checks.

I watched "Leon – The Professional" again last night and this time I watched the "extended version" although I've no idea what was actually in this one that was left out of the other one, such is the burden of old age! Natalie Portman (one of my favourite actors) even at her young age in the movie, was extremely good and the ending was explosive! As a matter of interest, she also starred in another very good movie, called "Annihilation" and IMO it is well worth a look.

I'm a true believer in facts and what the thousands upon thousands of doctors, medical specialists, professors, universities and research establishments also believe, and I am a subscriber to several medical publications which are only available to "qualified medical personnel", so I am able to verify that which I read as regards treatment for the likes of Covid et al. The supposed "facts" which you quote as regards the use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have also been discredited and disproved as has "research" carried out by organisations like America's Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) so do your own research on this right-wing group rather than condeming mine! So all in all, you are the one who is being misled by the "conspiracy theory" type narrative, obviously because it fits your own. Touché.

He has been disccredited on several counts and this will help you to understand............YouTuber misinterprets Covid-19 vaccine evidence on children from Singapore....read the whole article and you will see what a fraud this nurse educator is.... In short, Dr Campbell may sound as though he is comparing the risk of the Covid vaccine to the risk of Covid itself, but his analysis: includes serious adverse events that the vaccine may not have caused excludes many Covid hospitalisations that may have been more serious than those events excludes many Covid hospitalisations that would have occurred if most of the children in the study had not been vaccinated excludes much of the benefit (and potentially some of the risk) of vaccination Full Fact approached Dr Campbell for comment but had not received a response at the time of publication. We deserve better than bad information. After we published this fact check, we contacted Dr John Campbell to ask him to remove or correct the video. Dr Campbell did not respond. https://fullfact.org/health/john-campbell-youtube-singapore-children/ PS. He also recommended Ivermectin to treat Covid......to kill the virus. LOL!!!!

Dr John Campbell is not a doctor but a "nurse educator"...... John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator who has made videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later diverged into COVID-19 misinformation.[2] He has been criticised for suggesting COVID-19 deaths have been over-counted,[3] repeating false claims about the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and providing misleading commentary about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[4] Aseem Malhotra is a British cardiologist, health campaigner, and author, whose anti-COVID vaccine and anti-statin views have been criticised as misinformation by experts. He contends that people should reduce sugar in their diet, adopt a low-carb and high-fat diet, and reduce their use of prescription drugs. So a couple of guys, one a "self described doctor" and the other who has been criticised as publishing misinformation, spout their nonsense and the gullible believe them??

Thanks, I will download the movie tomorrow!!

You make some good points in your post and as another has posted, I remember the first time the Japanese motorbikes were introduced into the UK, in the early 60s and they were laughed at by the "traditionalists" saying that they sounded like sewing machines and wouldn't last – – well they did and I've even seen one from that era here in Thailand. They made a welcome change from the noisy, rattling, oil leaking monsters that were being produced in the UK. Now onto this subject; I'm in my 78th year and all I need a car for is to stay dry and to get from A to B reliably and that's it primary function, hence the reason I bought a Suzuki Swift and have never regretted it for one moment. It is also a mechanically sound car! When I was younger it was a lot different and I wanted a car that I could "show off" or later on would "match my status" (my words), so it started with a Lancia Thema, then BMWs from the 318iS. to the 525, then on to the Mercedes 350 SL, Saab Aero and finally the Audi V6 Quattro. Out of that lot I liked the Saab best of all, but now I'm here in Thailand and back to my original point, just need to get from A to B safely and in some comfort, so I would have no hesitation in buying one of the smaller MGs, should something happen to my dear old Suzuki Swift.

Whilst the anti-VAX brigade and the other tinfoil hat hangers on debate whether there is any such thing as a virus or bacteria or suchlike, and quote nonsense from suspect websites, those intelligent folk amongst us will be pleased to know that science and medicine marches on irrespective of what happens in the little world of these little people. It will be absolutely brilliant if this research progresses and comes to fruition, especially for those folk who have witnessed friends or family suffering from Parkinson's or even ALS – – read on: – Japan’s Stem Cell Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Parkinson’s Treatment It’s a small study, but it could change everything for neurodegenerative diseases. https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/lab-grown-brain-cells-parkinsons/

Your post just reminded me that Sean Connery, just before he died, stated that the two movies in which he appeared and liked most were, "The Untouchables" and "The Name of the Rose", and I watched the Untouchables a short while ago, so I downloaded and watched, "The Name of the Rose" and pleased that I did. PS. Leon is also on my list to watch shortly!

The worrying thing is that he and his goobers actually believe his rubbish and lies....he belongs in an asylum.