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rudi49jr

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  1. 9 hours ago, webfact said:

    Thai Red Bull distances itself from hit-and-run case as boycott calls grow

    One would think that the family gets their money out of the Red Bull company, right? So who paid for all of Boss’s lawyers and legal costs? For all of his traveling all over the world and staying in five star hotels for years? Not to mention all the many, many big fat brown envelopes that changed hands to make this all go away?

  2. 7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    The poster you quoted wasn't rejoicing because she has cancer, but because it means that sooner or later another conservative justice will be on SCOTUS.

     

    BTW, I've had cancer. The people that didn't like me didn't change their minds because of it.

    Where I come from, you don’t ‘rejoice’, for whatever reason, if someone gets cancer, certainly not if that person has served her country so well for so long. And to be totally honest, I am not at all sure that that poster wasn’t rejoicing because she has cancer, that’s just your take on it, isn’t it?

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  3. 16 hours ago, Tug said:

    Yeiks!!! That’s scary looks pretty clean like it hasent been used hope that’s true glad the coppers caught the perps 

    It hadn’t been used yet. The Dutch police have recently hacked some kind of secure and encrypted messaging service a la whatsapp (which turned out not to be secure and encrypted enough) that was used by criminals. They felt so sure that this service was safe that they openly discussed drugs deals, hits, and things lik that. This torture chamber also came up. The Dutch police have been making a lot of arrests over the past few weeks, and I expect quite a few more soon.

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  4. 7 hours ago, chilli42 said:

    Should have been fines levied as well for granting access without proper approvals, since both parties understood what they were doing was breaking the law.

    Couldn't agree with you more. I am very surprised, however, that the usual suspects (i.e. the Trump devotees and anti-environmentalists) on this forum are not out in force and haven't jumped on this topic to bitch and moan about how the bleeding-heart liberals and snowflakes are hurting the economy and causing people to lose their jobs.

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  5. 23 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

    Sweden compares favourably to countries like the US and Britain, where lockdowns produced worse mortality rates, while wrecking their economies and trampling citizens' rights.

     

    The Swedes were too gentlemanly to point out another salient fact. Numerous experts predict deaths caused by months of house arrest will far exceed those attributed to virus.

    But Sweden compares quite badly to their neighboring countries where swift action was taken. You're also naming the two countries (USA and UK) with probably the worst reaction to the virus: it was downplayed for a long time and the virus could spread freely before measures like a lockdown were taken. No wonder both the USA and the UK suffered such high mortality rates, since they didn’t act before massive damage had already been done. 

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  6. 3 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

    All he admitted was to was not having sufficiently protected elderly folk in residential and nursing homes. Overall he was satisfied with Sweden's response.

     

    The Swedish government's decision to treat its citizens like adults rather than unruly children paid off not only in terms of the preserving civil liberties - egregiously trashed in lockdown countries - but in minimising the pandemic's impact on the economy. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

    How can he have been satisfied with Sweden’s response when he admitted that too many people died and that if he could do it again he would opt for a ‘regime’ in between what his neighboring countries had done and what Sweden had done? 
    Besides, many so-called adults obviously refuse to act like responsible adults, as is apparent now that lockdowns are being eased or totally abandoned. Just look at what is happening in America, where infection rates in states like Florida, Oklahoma and Arizona are spiking. 

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