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At some point, further treatment does not prolong the living, just the dying.

Agreed. The Liberals were unwilling to accept the NDP's demands and the NDP thought they had a shot at a minority government. Harper presented himself (falsely) as a moderate small-c conservative and fooled a lot of people.

I suggest that there is far less difference between the Liberals and NDP than there is between the Reformers and old-line PCers. Moreover, both the Liberals and NDP have enough sense to compromise if the circumstances warrant- that's how we got Medicare and the Canada Pension plan, to name but two. The degree of fanaticism on the extreme right precludes any such beyond posturing some moderation for electoral purposes.

The current federal PC is a shotgun marriage held together only by the hope of gaining power and rewarding themselves for fooling their voters again. As has happened time and again, this unholy alliance will fail.

You reap what you sow.

Isn't that a contradiction?

Thus demonstrating a good self-preservation instinct. And alternate nose tackle.

Another milestone reached:

Once you take the theological stuff out, things get a bit clearer. Israel does have an absolute right to exist, but the question is whether the state of Israel has the right to exist as a purely Jewish entity, or as a multicultural one. According to biblical text, the Israelites, before they were a self-contained country, were directed by Yah to invade and conquer Palestine and were further directed to kill off ALL the inhabitants, which sounds suspiciously like genocide. And God punished them for not being thorough enough at it. When Israel and Judah were conquered by surrounding Semites, there were no attempts at genocide, apart from the relocation of many as slave into Babylon. Other Jews fled to wherever they thought would be safe. Israel was under Arab rule for several hundred rule, and during that time it was relatively peaceful, although there were occasional uprisings. It seems to me that historical wrongs, or what are interpreted as wrongs get passed down from one generation to the succeeding one and so forth. There is an interesting sidelight. About 6 years ago, Israeli archaeologists took DNA samples from 2000-2500 year old Jewish bodies and compared them to current Israeli and Palestinian DNA. The results, as reported by Haaretz newspaper indicated that the Palestinians were closer in genetics than most current Israelis. Those who describe themselves as Zionists want nothing less that a "purely" Jewish state with all Palestinians evicted and the extremists among Palestinians and other Arab countries still see the Israelis as occupiers to be driven out. There seems to no way to reconcile these two factions. The extremists in both camps have created and sustained the other, and each benefits handsomely from the conflict.

Herschel Walker claims that Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. get their intelligence from him. Herschel Walker claimed that Trump kids Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump got their intelligence from him because he spent so much time with them.

America is headed for where it has always headed with occasional pauses for sanity- a fascist theocracy. Before you scoff, it may be well to remember that only about 20-25% of the American colonists wanted to separate from England, but were so militant that the 75-80% who were not sure were intimidated or converted to the cause.

Judge Orders Arizona County To Immediately Certify Election Results PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Thursday ordered Cochise County officials to certify the midterm election results by the end of the day, saying Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused to sign off on the vote count by this week’s deadline. Two Republicans on the county’s three-member board of supervisors have not cited any problems with the election results. Rather, they say they aren’t satisfied that the machines used to tabulate ballots were properly certified for use in elections, though state and federal election officials have said they were. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs filed suit Monday, as did a local voter and a group of retirees, arguing the supervisors are required by law to certify the election, a process formally known as a canvass. Hobbs says she is required to hold the statewide certification Dec. 5 and by law can delay it only until Dec. 8.

Trump Saddled Republicans With Herschel Walker And Has Now Abandoned Him In Runoff WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump saddled Republicans with a clearly flawed Herschel Walker as their Senate nominee in Georgia, but in the final weeks before the runoff election, the ex-president has not spent a single dime to help Walker out of the nearly $100 million he has in donor money. Some 100 groups have poured $69 million into the Dec. 6 runoff between Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings through Thursday. Ten have spent at least seven figures, led by the pro-Warnock Georgia Honor super PAC with $19.4 million and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund with $15.3 million. But groups controlled by the coup-attempting former president, who cajoled Walker to get into the race in the first place, essentially clearing the field for the former football star, have not reported spending anything at all — that despite Trump likely having $94 million on hand between his Save America “leadership” PAC and his Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC. “He’s not going to spend it. He doesn’t care,” said Martha Zoller, a former adviser to Georgia’s popular GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. “People are really resentful of how Trump has handled all of this.”

Which channel and time? Can't find it.

Soooo....you're saying that Justin has been sleeping very well for the last while?

Urinary, verbal or fecal?

No doubt she promised so much winning that everyone would get tired of winning.

Will be leaked within weeks, if not days. Trump's thralls will completely miss the fact that they subsidized him by paying higher taxes to compensate for the free ride he has enjoyed at their expense.

Not to worry- they won't be around long enough to be memorable.

Putin’s Prison Recruiting Scheme Takes a Big, Desperate Turn ABUJA, Nigeria—Russia’s infamous Wagner Group is freeing hardened rebels held in jail cells in the Central African Republic and deploying them overseas, including in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, two senior military officers in CAR told The Daily Beast. According to the sources in CAR, where armed rebels have controlled large parts of the country for about a decade, dozens of men held in military and police custody for crimes such as rape and murder are now being recruited into Wagner’s local wing, which includes hundreds of fighters commonly referred to as “Black Russians.” Many of the recruits, the officers said, are rebels the military consider to be terrorists because of their unlawful use of violence and intimidation against civilians and armed forces in pursuit of political aims. “Since October, they [Wagner paramilitaries] have been walking into military and police cells and releasing rebels, including those held for attacking Bokolobo village [in southern CAR] in May and for raping women and girls,” an officer who works at the military headquarters in CAR’s capital, Bangui, told The Daily Beast. “Nobody can stop them because the government has given them so much power to act the way they want.” Another military officer told The Daily Beast that rebels held for attacking and killing CAR soldiers during an assault on a military camp in the southeastern town of Bakouma town in April have also been freed by Russian mercenaries. The officer said Wagner paramilitaries told military officials that the released rebels would be working for the group overseas. “They [Wagner] said they needed urgent manpower in Mali and Ukraine,” the officer, who works with CAR’s army, told The Daily Beast. “I think more than 20 people we’ve been holding [for very serious crimes] have been released.” Many of CAR’s high-risk criminals, particularly rebels accused of harming, raping, and killing civilians are held in military and police cells rather than in understaffed and poorly secured conventional prisons. Although the detainees are under the custody of local forces, Wagner mercenaries—who’ve been active in CAR since the government turned to Russia for help in securing arms and paramilitaries in 2017—continue to exert influence over the Central African nation’s security agencies. Among the prisoners released by Russian mercenaries is a notorious fighter from the Union for Peace (UPC) rebel group known by his colleagues as Mohammed, according to a former UPC member. The released rebel fighter is believed to have been involved in the Bokolobo attack in May. He allegedly joined Wagner’s local unit in late October and is now among the dozens of Black Russians believed to have been deployed to Ukraine. “[Mohammed] and four others were accused of raping and killing civilians in Bokolobo and detained for months by soldiers at Camp du Kassaï [in Bangui],” Ali, who was recruited by Wagner Group after quitting UPC last December, told The Daily Beast. “We were surprised to see that he had become a Black Russian and was even shortlisted for Ukraine.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group-accused-of-recruiting-prisoners-from-the-central-african-republic-for-russias-war-in-ukraine?ref=home

Balkans and many other ethnic groups who are inter-related have been waging what are essentially civil wars for centuries because someone had an inappropriate relationship with someone else's goat or such and are so frozen in hatred and revenge that it would take a miracle of epic proportions to change those mindsets. One Serbian academic was asked why there is such enmity in the Balkans, and said that the graveyards are not full enough yet.

My extended family deny this.