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Actually, irrespective of the individuals who were elected, it is remarkable that no American president has been elected (or ever will it seems) who served in the Vietnam War. I'm not sure any served in the Korean War either. Looking at post war VPs: Walter Mondale was in the Army during the Korean War, but I don't think he was deployed. Dan Quayle was in the National Guard, and so avoided the draft Al Gore; interestingly, he joined the army in order to help his dad get re-elected (it didn't work). Most of his Harvard classmates found ways to avoid the draft. He went to South Vietnam as a military journalist. He went in as an Enlisted Man, but its thought that Nixon delayed his deployment, in case his dad would use that to win votes. He was only in Vietnam for a few weeks. JD Vance; Served 4 years, 6 months of which was in Iraq as a base photographer. So it seems military service is an exaggerrated vote winner. I'm sure if I went through Primary Candidates for both parties I would find individuals with substantive post-war combat experience, but ultimately it counted for nothing. The obvious example of a losing candidate with substantive experience was John McCain, and it really did him no good, and in fact was used negatively against him by members of his own party. Other losing candidates: Mike Dukakis; in Army after the Korean War Bob Dole; wounded WW2 veteran John Kerry; Vietnam War, 3 Purple heart, 1 silver star, 1 bronze star. The whole Swift Boating nonsense marred all that, as his opponants sought to downplay his military experience, perhaps a portend of the absolute weaponising of the topic.

His wife died relatively young.

How do you know they didn't have a gardener. They were discoverd by maintenance workers, which are gardeners. One of his daughters said they kept in regular contact. I haven't spoken to my mother for 12 days. She'll be ok. Not everyone is like you.

You are a conspiracy theorist, and see conspiracy on every corner. Hence I refuse to quote most of your crazy comment. You are typical of the person brought out of the woodwork onto social media in the last few years. Hence your Avatar, where you imagine yourself to be a drug dealer from a violent video game. The strain in that part of the US is particularly virulant, much more so than other strains. Thats why 50% of people infected die. Even if admitted to ICU, 33% of patients won't make it. Risk is greatly increased following El Nino events. Mrs Hackman has picked up her dog on the 9th, and was apparently in good health at that time. She spoke to someone on the 11th, again, with no apparent symptoms. By nightfall she was dead. You've probably had sniffles before, maybe a cough. What did you do, panic and run to hospital crying like a baby, or reach for the strepsils?

American mining companies have only secured one mining licence there. Even Australian companies have more licences. I wonder why the US government isn't saying instead how it will actively support US mining licence bids to make them more successful, because they are doing something wrong.

And mining licences have been granted, primarily to British companies: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/AMRQ/amaroq-becomes-largest-licence-holder-in-greenland/16188389 https://www.bus-ex.com/article/uk-mining-company-wins-historic-greenland-licence https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1707316494252527300/greenroc-says-greenland-law-change-will-accelerate-amisoq-project.aspx If Denmark chooses to sell Greenland, the UK has first refusal. If the reason the US wants to annex Danish territory is out of concern to national securiry, I'm sure it would have no objection to such a close ally moving in instead.

Or yappy sausage dog.

In 2024, he didn't run against Clinton. Lets see in 4 years time if any of us are either still alive, or living in penury. If we make it, its by chance, not by design. If we don't, none of this matters. It might be out of the pot into the frying pan. I see no evidence, given his direct threats of violence against some of his closest allies that the "Western World" will be saved. I am aghast at the levels of support people have expressed for his brand of imperialism. I thought we left that behind circa 1895.

Look up Ginggaew Lorsoungnern. She was executed by machine gun (10 rounds) in Thailand in 1979. Well, so they thought. She woke up in the morgue and started screaming and walking around. She had Situs inversus, so her heart was on the opposite side. At first they tried to roll her, to bleed her out. Then one of the officers tried to strangle her, but that didn;t work, so they dragged back into the execution room, tied her to the post and tried again, this time with 15 bullets. They had another execution lined up right after. Because of the botch, the second prisoner had to wait 10-15 minutes. Even that was botched. First time, 13 bullets, but he was still breathing. So they reloaded and put in another 10. Personally, if you are going to have capital punishment, it needs to be by the most horrific but quick method possible. If the state has the power to take a life, it needs to live with the consequences. Guilotine, unwashed. Witnesses to be present. Doctor on hand to confirm death by holding and presenting the head to the witnesses. The witnesses and staff can live with the memories. Fictionalised execution of Gary Glitter. Under the British approach, the condemmed would not be given an execution date or time.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/07/united-russia-criticized-for-gifting-meat-grinders-to-fallen-soldiers-mothers-a88281

I think there might be a lot of these things in the region Though it might be a replica.

I'm surprised by the size of the firing squad; 3 prison officers, who all volunteered. I'm not sure if they had 1 live round between 3 or 3 live rounds. Surprised not a 7 man squad. Or if there is objection to the Chinese approach.

Well the subject is whether Ukraine is a country or not. For some, if its not a country, then war is justified on the grounds that Ukraine should be considered an internal matter. But on the other hand, the 13 colonies were, at one time, never a country, and had to fight for their Nationhood in essentially a Second English Civil War, which resulted in a schism between the English peoples. It's forgotten, but it took over 100 years for the British and Americans to be fully reconciled. Its like falling out with your kid brother. Wait, that's the Russian attitude towards Ukraine, calling them little Russians, but not in a nice way. Its forgotten, for most of the 19th Century, we were not friendly nations, though most of that ire came from the west. Some of it became quite heated, with William Harvey, who lead the predictably named Patriots of America Party, calling for the complete extermination of the English. Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom. But Irish, and some American politicins will still call it the 6 Counties, and refuse the accept the settled position. There are people in Northern Ireland who will refuse to consider themselves as Irish. Here it gets really complicated. All people of Northern Ireland will support the Irish Rugby side, because that rpredates partition. But there is no all Ireland football side, and support for the Northern Irish football team. Now in reference to the website you found. It reveals a complex history, no different to the complex history of all of Europe. You might as well say Germany isn't a real country, nor is Italy, Denmark, Norway and indeed Eire. Of course I should be calling Eire the Republic of Ireland, because Eire was a word used by those who didn't consider Ireland to be a country. Of course Ukraine is a real country. Its as much a real country as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and indeed the United States of America. There are nutters out there who believe these aren't legitimate countries. What you are parroting is the line coming from Vladislav Surkov, the Grey Cardinal, who created Putin's policy. He considers the notion of being Ukrainian t be a mental illness. A distinct Ukrainian language emerged in the 14th Centry, 300 years before your country even existed. The Ukrainians then were the Cossack Slavs, who wanted rid of their Polish--Lithunanian masters. While they felt closer to the Muscovites, they wanted to become independant, and were nearly put on a pathway to becoming a western-leaning state with the failed Treaty of Hadiach. The Poles ceded the territory to the Tsars, and then started a Cossack insurgency against Moscow, which culminated in the Russians utterly destroying Zaporizhian Sich 100 years later (the semi-autonomous Cossack state), thus snuffing out Ukrainian yearning for independance. This is where it gets similar to England and Ireland following Cromwell. Cromwell worked to snuff out any sense of Irishness, in the same way the Csar did the same to the Cossacks. I think Ireland shows you can't eradicate a culture nor a sense of nationality. Ukrainian intelligentsia kept alive the Ukrainian language, in the same way that it was Irish elites in the late 19th Century who worked to revive what was thought to be a dead language (recent US moves to declare English the official language of America shows how important language is to a nation). If you want to debate your belief that Ukraine is not a real country, as a way to justify your support of the Moscow communists, fine. But you cannot try and twist that debate to exclude genuine historic parallels. This is what the Bolsheviks do; try and shut down debate and come up with a false history. Since you seem to be a Bolshevik, I welcome your view as a communist in this debate. Communist China does the same; try and deny that Tibet is a country, and more recently, they try and delegitamize the Republic of China.

Slightly off. Harold was an Anglo Saxon. He was born in Wessex (West Saxon) but was basically Danish. Athelstan booted out the Cornish from Exeter 200 years before the Norman invasion. The Normans (Norsemen) were themselves not of France. Ulster politics can be pretty messed up, and much more complicated than what outsiders think, even British outsiders!

Yeah, they should (or downgrade relations). China operates secret police stations from their Embassies. Glad you agree with that sentiment. The US recognises the wrong Chinese government, if one wants to put a cat among the pigeons. The Beijing government are illegal usurpers. Such a change would reverse the mistake done by Trickie Dickie, which essentally facilitated the rise of the PRC, which otherwise would have withered as some sort of enorous hermit state. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65305415 .

Where does he stand on Northern Ireland and Puerto Rico? In Northern Ireland, the loyalist terrorists would fly Israeli flags on street corners. Republican terrorists would fly Palestinian flags on street corners. These are truely screwed up pledges of unity and common cause.

An act no doubt more palatable if the Colonies recognise that 1776 was an enormous mistake and the American President can become the Governor General, and wear a cool uniform, if His Majesty is up for it. United Empire Loyalists descendants can finally go back and reclaim the property stolen from their ancestors who merely wanted to obey the Law. Boston Tea Party plotters can be finally exposed for being the collaborators they were (selling tea to the enemy etc). More like the United Stats provides the eleventth through 61st Provinces of a Greater Canadian Confederation. Based on population, Canada being the 51st state (in reality, 13 additional states (provinces and territories) would give them 26 seats in an expanded 126 seat Senate and 50 seats in Congress.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61666339 https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/elon-musk So he's a Tesla employee, but working remotely.

Need some South African light hearted song writing

So is he reforming the whole process of appointments of prosecutors in the US, removing the power to appoint or remove prosecutors from the power of the Executive? If he is doing that, more power to him. But I suspect he is not, merely appointing people based on ideological loyalty, continuing a cycle.

The wife was 65 years old. Not a ripe old age. Died 2-3 days into an infection.

When you have advanced AD you literally don't recognise a phone as a phone. Why would he need a maid?

It might not be that odd if they were a couple wanting to live a very private life. Since 2020, they were basically recluses. His wife was 3 decades younger than him. What happened to her seems to have been a freak occurence. The mortality rate of hantavirus is 50%. The wife had picked the dog up from the vet on the 9th Feb. This was the dog that was found dead. She was dead by the 11th Feb. The medication found was for a thyroid condition. The house was on an isolated 12m acre estate. Its not the sort of place where neighbours wave at each other on driveways. People with AD really have cognition problems. My father would never step on a black mat, because he throught it was a giant deep hole. He had lived in the same house for 40 years, but was convinced he was in a hotel. My mother had been a paraplegic for a decade, but he was convinced she was faking it, and on occasion lifted her out of the wheelchair throwing her on the floor, insisting that she should walk. He would wander out into the garden at night, sit down on a garden seat and defecate, thinking he was going to the toilet. People who find it a mystery why Hackman didn't pick up the phone don't have any experience of AD My parents had an emergency line installed by the RBL, who wanted a £1000 a year for a telephone answering service (not a hospital hotline). It was canceled. The average life expectancy after diagnosis is 5 years. My father was put on medication that they promised would extend his "good years". He died 62 months after diagnosis.

Alzheimers is not a single disease; its a syndrome resulting in a similar symptoms. For instance, some forms are caused by Type 3 Diabetes. About 25% of cases are related to Herpes simplex, and then you get into an autimmunity disease. Those benefiting from the ketogenic diet are likely to be those with impaired glucose control, ie T3D.