Scott Tracy

Also it appears that the United States subsidizes Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year, and doesn't need anything that Canada has to offer. The US is just being nice. If this is true, then perhaps Canada needs to stop all exports to the US and the US should stop subsidising Canada going forward. If Canada has nothing the US wants, making them the 51st State is pointless. This money can be used to reduce the national debt and reduce inflation. Job done...

President Trump puts tariffs on imports, making it more expensive for consumers, this reduces demand affecting the producers. Had it been me, I'd have removed the issue in its entirety. Stop exporting to the United States. This would help achieve the stated goal of the USA no longer being dependent on an insecure and unfair supply chain and encouraging companies to produce in the US. The UK is living in the past with its so called 'special relationship'. It's never been special. The only way the UK survived WW2 is because of the sacrifices of others and support of the United States.

USAID, FEMA, Education, nuclear regulatory oversight, FAA.. Science... Basically everything funded by the Federal government will be shredded. So many people.out of work. No one to buy the expensive US made cars, white goods, food...Especially as Canada will pull oil and electricity from the US market and hopefully build a beautiful big wall. quid pro quo babe.

Data?

Like it was a mistake to kill those people on Oct 7th? Like it was a mistake to take those hostages? Like it was a mistake to kill the children who they held hostage? G**ss the place. They can do nothing to redeem themselves. Who wants them?

Maybe Trump will withdraw all support from NATO to allow his friend to invade the rest of Europe.

Evidently not, with America treating with the Russians. They're still communists, right?

Like many others, unfortunately, they are given the oxygen of publicity. There were 2 others recently, hugging some of the unfortunates in California who had lost their homes. I would posit that the vast majority care not what Musk says, but since the media reports his missives on his own 'social media platform', we fuel his self aggrandizing...

Who the flock is this Thaksin geezer? Is this the Thai version of Musk? Oh no, Thaksin 's native Thai....

How has China taken control?

The law of unintended consequences. Or more to the point, no joined up thinking...

Not a natural citizen... How true... A suspected illegal immigrant to the US in his early days... He has no accountability to the American people, nor is he appointed on the advise and consent of the Senate...

According to him, he has Aspergers. It's unfortunate he has stated this. It's a catch all excuse for his inhumanity to man and tarnishes everyone else who is genuinely afflicted as being the same as him. Look at me, I'm the world's richest man, but anything bad I do I can blame on my Aspergers....

You can't handle the truth.... According to Jack Nicholson...

The American dream.... Make Europeans a little less anti-American. The American dream - from suspected of being in the US illegally during his early years, to becoming the most powerful man on the planet... For a non native born American who need not become president, limited to 8 years, limited by the Constitution, limited by Congress....

SATs and IQ tests don't make people smart. They just tell us how dumb we are.

I guess it depends what 'die' you're talking about...

If a bird stops flapping its wings, apart from soaring, it will fall to the ground. If the balloon bursts, it too will fall to the ground. This principal is the same, however, the mode of 'flight' is different. This moves us away from the principal reason and the original post....is the Earth flat...?

And I keep asking myself, why the hell am I engaging in this horse hockey?

I like deceitful, duplicitous as synonyms....

I think the clue is in the name. This is a spirit level. Thus, the portion of ground it covers is level, not necessarily flat, though.

How about Newton's Principia? Elementary common sense says it's round, or sunrise and sunset would the same times over the plate, like Discworld.

Agreed.

There's plenty of room in the Highlands.

Seekers of asylum, ECHR... Identification issues, age issues, the French 'authorities '.. You name it. This government has not yet stated where these deportees have been deported to.