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I know that most of your posts could be described as an " area weapon" but you are so far off target it defies description! As I said, "extraordinary"!

I think that the favourite American phrase is "collateral damage".

However did you manage to deduce that from my post? Extraordinary!

If he does hold such a record, it is a remarkable achievement given the competition from what might be termed the "other side of the fence"!

Read my post before you get all "punchy", I didn't say I was offended,did I. In fact I opened my post by saying that I wasn't particularly offended!

As an Englishman, a Catholic and a follower of Cricket I can't say that I was particularly upset about the ECBs quip. Given the Popes current ill health it may have been in questionable taste. There is also, sometimes, the occasional niggling irritant when aspects and practices of our faith, which are important and significant to some of us are mocked, however gently. But outrage - that would be like calling for a fatwah on Dave Allen!

Wasn't the main drive of the vaccination campaign to vaccinated those who were elderly or had other health issues which made them more vulnerable to COVID? They are now 4 years older, and still have health vulnerabilities. That may have some bearing on why they are dieing?

Existing factories taking up spare capacity.

You set out to pick a fight, congratulations, you got one. Having the "courage" to wear a red baseball cap in Thailand does not bring with it the right to call upon the moderators to suppress opinions you don't like.

Oh, that would be a shame! 😔

Well certainly if he insists on standing on a pile of paper clutching a can of petrol and a "burning brand"!

Well I doubt that they will dig him up after a couple of years, stick his head on a spike and mount it on a bridge over the Potomac - but I get your drift!

The future of AI. I understand that AI requires lots of energy (electricity) and "rare minerals". Funnily enough Canada has both! Then of course Greenland and Ukraine...

I see another one of his rocket ships has gone of bang shortly after launch. I do wonder why he is allowed to continue to fire them into the Florida skies, only for them to scatter themselves as debris all over the place - surely the FAA must have a view? Ah, I have just spotted the flaw in my arguement!

Says the man who regularly suggests that he should get involved in the UK...

"This incident follows a similar act last year when pro-Palestinian activists sprayed red paint over Senate House, another historic university building." If they had been then this latest vandalism would probably not have happened.

It was a marvelous testament to the regenerative properties conveyed by a diet of Big Macs and Diet Coke!

One plans for contingencies. The threats to both Canada and Greenland are consistent and persistent. The US maintains a military which is large enough to do either from a "standing start". That said I doubt that the people of the US would appreciate their National Guard being rotated through Canada on occupation duties. It is a big country - how many troops will be needed, for example, to garrison and escort convoys on the trucking routes through Canada to Alaska? Along with the threats Trump is doing his best to smash NATO. His scorn for other international bodies - notably the UN is obvious; ironically both bodies were largely created by the US to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening again! He may be trolling, but given his actions and the capacities he controls, as I said, one plans for contingencies.

Yes, absolutely the case.

On his way to the nearest fountain for s <deleted>, shower, shave and shampoo!

I am sure that the King has the greatest respect for the Office of President of The United States. I rather doubt wether he has any respect for the current incumbent, or the collection of characters who surround him.

A resigning Prime Minister, very little. A newly elected Prime Minister, rather more. He or she will, as the Canadian Constitution requires, consult with the King of Canada. If the threats continue, and are deemed to be real, and damaging to Canada, then as King of Canada (on the advice of his Prime Minister) he may will feel he needs to speak. What will it accomplish? Well it will no doubt bring down a Trumpian tirade. This will certainly put a stop to the planned State Visit to the UK; President Trump may not care about that, although I suspect he will! Such a tirade will not go unnoticed world wide, and will bring his Presidency into disrepute - although again he may not care. You may be certain that any "takeover" which is opposed by the people and government of Canada will be opposed by the King, and resisted by Canadians if attempted. I would not be surprised that if a date is announced on which the USA intends to incorporate Canada, we would discover that the King will be in Canada at that same time! If nothing else, it would spark the biggest international incident since 1939, with repercussions for the USA, diplomatic and economic which will not fade for a very long time, not to mention a significant resistance movement. USA has a very large army, but you would need it to occupy, tie down and subdue a rebellious Canada.

I first went to the USA back in the Clinton Presidency. The cities (Washington DC) were amazing, and their populations seemed prosperous. As we drove down the coast through Virginia and the Carolinas it became a very different story. Rural housing was often little more than shacks, or battered mobile homes. Lots of abandoned housing. No obvious employment, little economic activity apart from the ubiquitous fast food outlets. It was, frankly, away from the cities, and going by most markers, pretty third world then. I was there with the Army. Talking to the US soldiers it rapidly became clear that many (if not most) had joined because it was the only way to get a job, and the only way to get an education and medical care; particularly the coloured soldier. The amount of latent discrimination both in the military and in civil society was noticeable. I went back several times over the next ten years. Not a lot seemed to change.

The Canadians have many strengths. Amongst them is an unerring ability to take the Mickey!

Hasn't NASA (immune to Musk's influence of course), cancelled a contract with one of Musk's competitors and awarded it to "Starlink". Not so much in plain sight as emblazoned in a multicoloured laser show all over NASA headquarters!