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In most parliamentary systems, I think the main cause for expulsion is for calling a fellow member a liar. Rhetorical embellishment is not usually a cause.

Occasionally I feel the need to elucidate the uneducated on this board, especially when they are so egregiously wrong. But then I reconsider since in a battle of wits why would one arm the enemy?

If one could get the idiots to invest in creating those cities, one can both keep them busy and bankrupt them. Win win for the rest of us.

Macedonian not Greek. Alexander the Great was Macedonian as was his General, Ptolemy. Which makes Cleopatra of Macedonian descent. For reasons that I really don't understand people from this region take this stuff really seriously.

Fools. If they had chosen to work with the Republican party, all would have been well.

Fox claiming a win is like me claiming to have won a fight by proudly showing how I blocked all the punches with my face. The halfwits who believe Fox will believe anything anyone says.

Chances are someone in that meeting was as disturbed by the official's attitudes and decided to out them.

Alberta's seem to have the delusion that having oil in the ground makes them smarter.

It's not. Mediocre pizza at best.

On the internet, as in real life, bragging about how tough and strong one is usually means one is overcompensating for feelings or knowledge of inferiority.

I am sure that in some way the ACA is responsible for the aging boomer population of MDs retiring. Did Obama not specifically put in a time portal to boost births in the 50s to screw old Republicans who can no longer find a doctor in the 2020s? Silly as it seems my argument makes more sense than the drivel posted by McB.

I am not completely sure but I think the Larry Goldblatt mentioned is a lawyer with Goldblatt Partners now. My union uses them for labour and arbitration cases.

Zorral, I have to agree that some things in crime fiction have to go. Super intelligent serial killers and detectives who are mentally wounded but have an IQ in the 200s is enough to make me toss a book away. Isaac Asimov pointed out years ago that the whole IQ thing started with someone claiming that since they scored 140 and finished the test in half the time they had an IQ of 280.

" and now for the sound of John Denver being strangled.."

China's future is Japan's present.

Well before Maxwell, Faraday showed that there was a link by showing a current carrying wire has a magnetic field associated with it. Faraday did not have the math to show why this is so. Maxwell needed Hamilton's quaternions to create his equations. There is a YT channel called Kathy Loves Physics and History that explains all this in much more detail than I ever could. If anything it does show how intelligent and well read a teenage Mary Shelley actually was.

The latest news on the origin of Covid seems to be that it came from infected raccoon dogs at the Wuhan live market. Raccoon dog DNA was found with the original version of the Covid virus in samples taken at the beginning of the pandemic at the market. Chinese authorities did shut down this exchange of information online but not before the data was released. As to the why of the censorship, I assume that being associated with eating dogs is more problematic than being associated with incompetent lab techs.

If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end to end they would still all point in different directions.

As a lie or honest belief, it is still stupidity.

A sad anniversary and an event that I remember all too well being a teenager who was all too aware how lucky I was to be Canadian and not American.

Who would have thought a few hundred years of evidence for vaccination working to gain immunity in a population would actually work. One for the books.

Guardalavaca. I have been coming here off and on since 2002. Wonderful staff here. I am at the Brisas if you know it.

Sunny and 30 C outside. Did I mention I am at a beach in Cuba?

I didn't think you could pedal that fast.

Better Uranus than mine.