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Canadian military: 1. Prepared to use old outdated equipment. Or fix it. 2. Prepared to travel on old unreliable A/C. 3. Prepared to watch other NATO allies go to danger areas. 4. Prepared to be politically correct in all occasions. Unless you're a general/admiral in Ottawa. Then pussy grabbing ok.

No insult to Rob or other members of the CAF. But I was surprised they had such a test and wonder how you could fail it.

Putin is putting the boots to criticism of his war. Between Russia and China. This is what happens when autocratic leaders weasel into power. "A court in Moscow on Friday sentenced an opposition lawmaker to seven years in prison for denouncing Russia’s war in Ukraine, handing down the first real prison term for what the government made a crime shortly after the invasion."

Reports "one Canadian criminologist says it appears the brothers were prepared for and perhaps "actively seeking" some kind of shootout....Isaac Auchterlonie's Instagram account, which has since been deleted, was full of gun photos, war references and video of him and his brother in camouflage shooting rifles in the forest. ...Police have said the suspects were armed and were believed to have been wearing body armour... "They were waiting for something. Pacing quietly, like a country walk," she said. Fryer said she was left alone for five to 10 minutes inside the office. During that time, she pulled out her cellphone and called 911. "Why were [the suspects] waiting? What were they doing?" she wondered. "They could have taken the money and gone." It seems as if the two wanted "suicide by cop" One wanted to join the Canadian forces but failed an aptitude test.

You're moving the goalposts. You laid out the litany of wrongdoing. Much of which was known to the UK electorate when he won his landslide election. So his last three years is whats of issue. Do you have your skates on? Because you keep skating away from your goal of political idealism.

So you can't name a political party and leader with your idealized standards? OK

You seem to have some sort of idealized concept of how political parties operate. That they operate without party whips. Perhaps you'd like to identify the party and leader that doesn't lie about policy, economics, budgets, etc. In the Canadian parliament a member that called upon its leader to resign during question period. Would be tossed from the party the same day.

Its as if the UK Tories are all like Liz Cheney. Conservatives with a backbone and integrity. Instead of power hungry stooges like American conservatives. Well the GOP ones anyway.

Johnson blames his downfall on the "herd instinct". There must be a British term for chutzpah as he is a populist. All in all Macron is an elitist like Johnson. Trudeau is corrupt at his edges. But for the G7 trump still set the gold standard. The GOP is light years away from the UK conservative party.

That implies some sort of equivalency. trump is in a class of his own.

He cheated in his marriages. Lied his way through life. Tried to silence his fellow party members. But finally did the right thing. His personal sense of entitlement brought him down.

At first read I'd think that a statement like that should be checked out as it doesn't seem believable. But then it is the new USSC.

Russian disinformation finds fertile ground in the West from Nature June 2022 Disinformation Has Become Another Untouchable Problem in Washington "Numerous federal agencies agree that widely promoted falsehoods threaten the nation’s security. Doing something about them is another matter." NYT today Putin has organized Russian propaganda directed toward the US and its effective. Both republicans and democrats seem powerless to respond.

As compared to the new justices which refereed to their bibles.

I don't think you understand the variable costs/overhead of crypto mining." In some parts of Europe, energy rates have shot up so dramatically that mining one bitcoin can cost up to $25,000, says Daniel Jogg, CEO of Enerhash, a company running blockchain data centers." So it cost $25k in electricity(the old lower rate) to get a now $20k bitcoin. Thats w/o amortizing the cost of the equipment. Which can become obsolete within a few years.

The new red, white and blue for July 4th.

Way too much negativity in this thread. So America had the misfortune to be created by a constitution authored by those who just don't trust government. Hence armed citizens everywhere. Hence checks and balances that hog-tie government. it could be worse. They could be Uyghurs like those in China. Sent to reeducation camps and forced labor camps. Could be Ukrainians at war with a madman....Oh hell i got nothing.

Purchased his weapon legally.

I guess you and i haven't been going to church enough. Demonic Oppression is Real, and There’s Something You Can Do About It

Trump-backed Michigan secretary of state nominee said abortion is ‘child sacrifice’ Then she went on to say "she said humans have sacrificed other humans, including their own children, for “thousands of years, just packaged differently.” “[People] were sacrificing them to these deities, which were really demons,” she said. Karamo went on to say in a later episode of her podcast reviewed by CNN’s KFile that demonic possession is real and can be transmitted through “intimate relationships.” “If a person has demonic possession — I know it’s gonna sound really crazy to me saying that for some people, thinking like what?!” Karamo said in September 2020. “But having intimate relationships with people who are demonically possessed or oppressed — I strongly believe that a person opens themselves up to possession. Demonic possession is real.” trump, he sure knows how to pick winners.

trump declared it a "Emergency" in 2017 then cut funding. He appointed unqualified hacks to direct the crisis, Chris Christie and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway. . He ordered the defunding of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Then reversed himself. In December 2019 the GAO blasted the incompetence and stupidity of the trump drug policy regarding the crisis. "The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), within the Executive Office of the President, is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the implementation of national drug control policy,""ONDCP did not issue a national drug control strategy for either 2017 or 2018," the GAO concluded. trump is almost solely responsible for the complete lack of action in his administration. Yet for republicans its just a sick political football. Its amazing that right wing media can paint such concepts as Biden or Obama failures. That anyone can even be so stupid and ignorant. As to paste such failures on the left when trump cut funding for the very office responsible for the crisis management.

"The AI software market is expected to jump 21.3% to $62.5 billion in 2022, forecasts market research firm Gartner." That number doesn't include other corporate or private firms with in house spending in the hundreds of billions. Meta/FB lost $10 billion in its AI programs last year alone. "Analyst firm IDC is predicting that US organizations will spend $120 billion a year on artificial intelligence systems by 2025. At that level, AI will see spending grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26.0% from 2021 to 2025, with the US maintaining its position from 2019 as the biggest spender on AI, accounting for more than half of worldwide spending. " Like other technologies. It will create jobs and kill jobs. Killing jobs that free up those people to move to other endeavors.

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She is trailing in the polls. Which shows the cancer still prevalent in the GOP. So one of them may be in Washington soon. But face it if Marjorie Taylor Greene can make it. These would be bright stars.Its why the GOP loves the poorly educated. Even those that lack schooling all together.

Well trump does hire "only the best".