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One of the things I was taught as a young man was simple and works most of the time. You take your foot, your mouth and your brain. Before you do or post something, try to imagine how foolish you will look sitting with your foot in your mouth. To avoid this, take a brief period and reflect before you follow through. It doesn't always work as I have found to my cost.

You really need to do some research before posting ridiculous and easily disprovable claims. Quote "Muhammad Ali dodged the draft". NO he did NOT dodge the draft at all. He refused to join the draft but did NOT, like many run away. At the trial on June 20, 1967, the jury found Ali guilty after only 21 minutes of deliberation of the criminal offense of violating the Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted.[25] After a Court of Appeals upheld the conviction, the case was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali

So why don't YOU list Trump's good points and defend him?

Tell that story to many police departments in the USA and see how that flies, About 386,000,000 results (0.44 seconds) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/report-black-people-are-still-killed-police-higher-rate-groups-rcna17169 https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2020/know-their-names/index.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americans_killed_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States There are far too many for me to list with individual links but here is a sample for you to chew on. If you want more examples and can be bothered to do a search, just simply type 'Black people killed by the police in the US' into your search engine.

You are correct. Usually my mind is 3 or 4 words ahead of my typing and I usually go back and check but not every time.

Thank you for the link. Another thing that slows my pump pressure is when the filter fitted before the pump gets clogged up.

IMHO stretching and bending your body are far more important than muscle training. It is no use having lots of muscle if you cant bend or stretch, You simply fall over, 3 times a day I lie on my bed and do 30 arm stretches, 30 stretches of each leg, 30 toe scrunches, 30 slow deep breaths and 10 deep breaths between each individual session. I take a count of 3 to hold each time. Then the worst bit, with my knees bent, I lift my back and spine off the bed for a count of 3, repeat that 5 times, breathe deeply 10 times then do another 5 lifts. At 79 the most of those I can do is 10 but every week I try to do 5 more back lifts. But it hurts. Now I can breathe more easily and walk a bit further. I have also lost about 11.3 kg this year simply by eating less. It is hard work but worth it in the end.

If I showed you 50 people without giving you any information could you tell me which of those people will live until they are 70 + and which will die at a much younger age? I will give you an example from my personal family experience. I am 79 and I have had 2 blackouts in 5 months, My Dad died of a heart attack in his 69th year. My Mum died of lung cancer in her 69th year, 15 years later. My middle brother died in his 82nd year. My youngest brother died at 10 months old. How do you explain those figures? I cannot, and they are my family.

AFAICS from the BBC article the two people, Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent, and Joseph Zielger, a criminal investigator have come up with allegations, NOT against President Biden or his son, Hunter, but against Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, an assistant to Mr Weiss, of repeatedly blocking further investigation into Hunter Biden. They say she denied a request for a search warrant of Joe Biden's Wilmington home, where Hunter Biden kept some of his financial records, citing "optics". They don't appear to have any proof that could be taken to a court to obtain a conviction of either President Biden or his son, Hunter. Without knowing the ins and outs of US laws, they may have enough allegations to start something against Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, an assistant to Mr Weiss. However that means that they need actual proof of the allegations. What IS confusing me a bit is that there only seem to be those two people making the allegation and IMHO there would have been a team of agents and investigators. If I am correct (and I could well be wrong) why have the rest of the team of agents and investigators backed these two up?

Nothing like good old double standards. I think that if it were President Biden that is what the Trump supporters on TVF would be shouting to high heaven.

He seems to be qualified https://www.google.com/search?q=Jack+Smith.&rlz=1C1CHBF_enTH1026TH1026&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&si=ACFMAn_fyoqvdetnK4PTDdeMVBxO87thkEJuDgX8CzbV1TozHK_LDg1B9gsx4-yUTarZy3kIvFwn88EvPlQb3PqmSbcVAvsLrPO6PV-J77uZ9xwFr2V0Cmk%3D&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwjKzIiTnKSAAxWscGwGHbOrBeMQ9YYDKAN6BAgzEAc but can he get the backing?

Don't you know who his Daddy is? Parents: Inchan Prompow, Pew Prompow Oddly enough I cannot find anything in English about Inchan Prompow or Pew Prompow. They both end up back at the link below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thamanat_Prompow

A very interesting link. Thank you. Who can stop Trump? The GOP, but they have to want to stop him, and not simply let it happen and hope that they can control him afterwards.

Here are several photos of my water pump. They are saved in the GIMP 2,10.32 - 1 app, but other photo apps should be able to open them,

Thank you for the tip. It mostly hurts when I am bending and I have tried to move stuff up to perhaps waist height so that I have no need to bend (where possible). Someone younger and fitter than me does most of the grunt work now. I just get frustrated that I cannot do it myself any more and have to wait until someone is available.

During the last 700 years in the UK there were a few somewhat different methods of execution. https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london-docklands/whats-on/exhibitions/executions/methods-execution#:~:text=Hanging was the most common,to have body parts removed. Hanging was the most common form of execution with traitors often being hung, drawn and quartered. They would be dragged to the site of execution, then they would be hanged (but not until dead) and would be pulled down while still alive to be cut open to have body parts removed. The most notorious traitors would have their decapitated heads dipped in tar in order to preserve them and then put on a spike so that others could see the punishment for treason. Barbaric and fortunately no longer in use, it is what used to happen to some traitors in the last few centuries.

I will try to get out there tomorrow and take a couple of photos. I also put my water pump on a metal table ro get easier access to it and save bending down all the time. It is bad for my back also.

I can remember history from when I was at school in the 1950s. The UK has been invaded by the Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Picts, the Scots, the Jutes, the Normans, Th Spanish tried, as did the Germans, the French and probably a few more. That is political history. Thailand has been invaded by the Burmese, the Cambodians, the Laotionas, the Malays, the Vietnamese. That is also political history. Thailand has also been invaded many times by its own military, though they were called military coups. Thailand as a country and as a people have survived through them all, and they will survive the current dinosaurs though it may be messy. Remember that history is written by the winners, and it isn't over yet.

Actually that is not completely correct, but please don't tell him. He is a Scot Nat and he will stamp his feet and throw his toys out of his pram. ????

Have you checked where they were all born? Are you prepared to send ALL the immigrants and their families,for the last 100 years, born in the UK or nit, off to Rwanda? Or only the ones that you are biased against? Now I can trace my ancestry back to the early 1700s in the UK. Can you?

Any 'normal' tablet will do. I use the Calibre app to sort my library and FB Reader to read the books.

I sent a load of Mobi books to my mate who has a Kindle but his Kindle will only accept books from Kindle or Amazon. I have a Lenovo tablet and use the Calibre app. It allows me to download any books in any format and to read them. I wouldn't use a Kindle if you gave me one and paid me to use it. That is just my personal point of view.

MTG is about as fine as an example of a member of the GOP as anybody can expect from them, especially with a person such as EX president Trump as a front runner. What really amazes me is that she stood for election and actually won because enough members of the GOP voted for her.

The mess that President Biden inherited from his predecessor EX president Trump.

The governments change quite often but the civil servants rarely change and even less rarely do they change for the better,