Shiftless2
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But Dr Oz wants to cut both.
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Seems fishy to me.
If Dr. Oz was interested in cutting he should have been a sturgeon.
Shiftless2
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Surgeon? Hell, he should have been a doctor.
Yes, if he hadn't been, it might have been the less scalding indictment. A real doctor should know better.
OTO this oddball will fit right in at the Trump white house.
ref:
Mehmet Cengiz Öz (meh-METJENG-gihz oz;Turkish:[mehˈmetdʒeɲˈɟizøz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz ...
The son of Turkish immigrants, Oz ... graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. ... In 2001, Oz became a professor of surgery at Columbia University, and later retired to professor emeritus in 2018. In May 2022, Columbia University cut ties with Oz and removed his presence from their website.
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New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military
by Brad DressThe primary suspects in two deadly attacks on New Year’s Day shared a history of service in the U.S. military, underscoring persistent fears over extremism within the armed services that officials have struggled to uproot.
The suspect behind a truck rampage in New Orleans that killed 14 people, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was an Army veteran, while the man allegedly behind the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the international Trump hotel in Las Vegas, Matthew Livelsberger, was an active-duty service member in the Army.
While not the first acts of military extremism, the two deadly attacks amplify questions about the number of radical and unstable veterans and active-duty troops and whether ....
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Shiftless2
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Not just the military - if extremists are attracted to "that sort of environment" it follows that they're going to be attracted to the police force as well (and a lot of cops are ex military).
Most of what I can find on line relates to the danger that extremists but this article does consider extremists within the ranks of the police
Most of what I can find on line relates to the danger that extremists but this article does consider extremists within the ranks of the police
Fiction author Ian Fleming created James Bond. For promotion: - licensed to kill -. Fiction when originally introduced, perhaps.
But the FBI marksman that murdered Vicki Weaver and others since have demonstrated, a government paycheck is a license to kill.
Don't take my word for it, ask FBI marksman Lon Horiuchi.
But the FBI marksman that murdered Vicki Weaver and others since have demonstrated, a government paycheck is a license to kill.
Don't take my word for it, ask FBI marksman Lon Horiuchi.
It's open season on YOU.
Major news from trusted ally and reliable trade partner, U.S.' Northern neighbor, Canada:
Why has Justin Trudeau resigned – and what’s next for Canada?
By Al Jazeera Staff / Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025After spats with allies, pressure from Donald Trump and falling poll numbers, Trudeau has decided to call it quits.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he plans to resign as Liberal Party leader, amid mounting internal dissent.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025...igned-and-whats-next-for-canada#ixzz8wbsZsWtx
President elect Trump sticks his nose in:
like it or not: "four more years"
Shiftless2
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So he's saying that Poilievre is "many people"
In fairness to Poilievre he did say that Canada would never be the 51st state
RTN Canada on Instagram: "Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, responds to Donald Trump’s jokes about Canada becoming the 51st state 🇺🇸#RTN 🇨🇦 Credits - TT/yourmorningctv"
4,541 likes, 368 comments - rtncanada on December 20, 2024: "Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, responds to Donald Trump’s jokes about Canada becoming the 51st state 🇺🇸#RTN 🇨🇦 Credits - TT/yourmorningctv".
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Trump has an unmistakable affection for authoritarians.
Trump has a similar affection for Russia's Putin, reflected in Trump's contempt for Ukraine, Zelenskyy.
Unfortunately it seems Trump's reckless pre-inauguration rhetoric about U.S. control of the Panama canal, and Iceland may not merely be inspired by Putin's military adventurism,
but may reflect Trump's desire & or intention to emulate Putin, in Panama, Iceland, and Canada.
Biden administration bans unpaid medical bills from appearing on credit reports
By MICHELLE L. PRICE / Updated 8:33 AM GMT-5, January 7, 2025Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans, according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule will remove $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of more than 15 million Americans, according to the bureau, which means lenders will no longer be able to take that into consideration when deciding to issue a loan.
The change is estimated to raise the credit scores by an average of 20 points and could lead to 22,000 additional mortgages being approved every year, according to the bureau. Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement announcing the rule that it would be “lifechanging” for millions of families.
“No one should be denied economic opportunity because they got sick or experienced a medical emergency,” she said.
Harris also announced that states and local governments have used a sweeping 2021 pandemic-era aid package to eliminate more than $1 billion in medical debt for more than 700,000 Americans.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-harris-medical-debt-credit-reports-d914b690602a14348d7d25508fa8f890
?!
So Biden / Harris have invented a new category within credit reports.
This doesn't affect indebtedness.
It affects the information available to lenders. Right?
So now lenders will need to recalculate loan applications in context of this new $mystery wildcard? And that's a good thing because ... ?
Says who?
Why not?
By what logic do you compromise long-tenured banking formulae on basis of this arbitrary criterion? Pseudo-compassion?
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Back to the Baltimore bridge "incident" (#298 etc)
The owners of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are suing the company that built the vessel, alleging negligence in the design of a critical switchboard on the ship.
Grace Ocean Private and Synergy Marine PTE Ltd, the owners of the Dali, filed the lawsuit last week against Hyundai Heavy Industries in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
“As a result of the defectively designed Switchboard, the Vessel suffered a power outage that led to the allision with the Key Bridge,” Grace Ocean Private alleges in the lawsuit.
Hyundai Heavy Industries could not immediately be reached for comment. Court records in the case did not name ....
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Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel
The owners of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are suing the company that built the vessel, alleging negligence in the design of a critical switchboard on the ship.
Grace Ocean Private and Synergy Marine PTE Ltd, the owners of the Dali, filed the lawsuit last week against Hyundai Heavy Industries in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
“As a result of the defectively designed Switchboard, the Vessel suffered a power outage that led to the allision with the Key Bridge,” Grace Ocean Private alleges in the lawsuit.
Hyundai Heavy Industries could not immediately be reached for comment. Court records in the case did not name ....
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Thanks S2.
I detect the aroma of the metaphorical hot potato. Problem is, it clouds the issue a bit.
Such vessel might ought not be licensed to transit that area without a tugboat escort (cumulatively prohibitively expensive), or a viable Plan-B, potentially as simple as an independently powered independently controlled.
Perhaps government should require bridge design robust enough to sink the boat, rather than the boat sinking the bridge.
The ship that dropped the Key bridge may have had lifeboats bigger than the vessel pictured here.
But this design enables the skipper to maneuver in ways boats without it can't. I know of no limit
for this or similar design to be scaled up.