Disgraced and demoted Dr. Ronny “Pill Mill” Jackson wants drug testing before the debates. Rep. Ronny Johnson Jackson can demand that testing as part of the pre-debate messaging push. But he KNOWS that it won’t happen, especially for this debate. But the testing and doctor we should be talking about is Dr. Sean Conley, who was Trump’s doctor before the 2020 Trump/ Biden debate. If you recall everyone was supposed to be tested for COVID AT THE VENUE, THE DAY OF THE DEBATE. Mark Meadows’ 2021 book revealed Trump had tested positive for COVID Saturday, September 26, 2020. Trump spent much of Saturday with the woman he nominated to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court: Amy Coney Barrett. She and her family — including her husband and seven children — were all on hand at the White House, and met with Trump, the first lady and the Pences in the Oval Office. Later, Trump attended a rally in Pennsylvania. According to Meadows, Trump tested positive before traveling to the rally in Pennsylvania and then subsequently tested negative.
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Peter Dutton’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has apologised after accidentally sending the hawk tuah video to all his contacts, for the second time this week. ”What can I say, I’m a bit clumsy when it... Read More ›
Thank God There has been an upsurge in google searches for Project 2025. The Biden campaign has noticed and they are here to help: Axios reported: The Biden campaign is using Thursday’s debate to launch a new offensive against Trump allies’ radical plans to transform the U.S. government, known as “Project 2025.” The Biden campaign wants to convince jaded voters that a second Trump presidency poses grave risks to the country. Biden officials see Project 2025 — which calls for an unprecedented expansion of presidential power — as a useful blueprint for what Trump’s return would bring. The controversial transition agenda was compiled by the Heritage Foundation with input from close Trump allies and former aides — some of whom are likely to take top jobs if he wins — but Project 2025 is not an official campaign platform. The Trump campaign points instead to the Agenda47 website for policies explicitly endorsed by former President Trump.
A new Rx for chronic pain?
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I’m so old I remember when candidate Barack Obama was forced to give a major address to distance himself from a pastor whose church he attended from time to time because of comments the pastor made when he wasn’t present. The whole country was Up In Arms. Today, the GOP candidate invites actual Nazi psychos to his house to give talks and is on the campaign trail for him: Extremist commentator Christiane Northrup has promoted a pro-Nazi film that denies the Holocaust, encouraged people to check out the infamous antisemitic tract Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and repeatedly pushed the conspiracy theory that a secretive mafia is hiding behind Jewish identity to control world events. Still, Northrup has spoken twice at Trump’s Miami resort alongside Eric and Lara Trump and been featured in a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign video. Northrup is a former OBGYN who initially gained fame as a self-help author who was praised by Oprah Winfrey.
There was much hand-wringing July of that year was a real nail biter … and Obama went on to win by 4 points. How about 1992? G. Elliott Morris of 538 (formerly the Economist poll) has this to say about that new NY Times poll, dropped coincidentally on the night before the debate, showing Trump up 6 among registered voters. (Biden is ahead among likely voters,.) Caveat emptor It ain’t over til it’s over.
In all liberal democracies, Australia included, national self-regard resists identification with the harsh implications of reliance on, or celebration of, military force – unless it can be viably represented as defence of freedom, just war, or wars against unspeakable Others. An updated Pearls & Irritations repost from December 23, 2020 And, in the case of liberal Continue reading »
There are vital lessons and warnings that must be considered in the freeing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He survived. He’s free. He’s home. Notwithstanding his abuse and torture for over a decade, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has successfully waited it out. There’s little doubt that his release was assisted by political pressures coinciding with Continue reading »
It has been demonstrated by the CSIRO, the International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol and the former Chief Scientist (Finkel) that even allowing for additional expenditure on transmission and storage (battery, pumped hydro, thermal) renewables are cheaper and available in a shorter time frame than nuclear in the Australian context. Dutton seems to be making Continue reading »
It feels like Groundhog day: Another coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, another meeting of the World Heritage Committee to examine Australia’s progress to safeguard our World Heritage-listed icon. UNESCO has urged Australia “to set more ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global temperature to 1.5°C”. It has expressed “high concern that Continue reading »
Watching Peter Dutton deliver his nuclear power announcement at a press conference on June 19 was a reminder of two things. The first was a recent observation by former Victorian Liberal Party strategist Tony Barry that the Coalition commitment to nuclear energy “is the longest suicide note in Australia’s political history”. The second reminder is Continue reading »
The Australian government needs to stand up against growing global protectionism and make some hard budgetary choices between guns and butter, defence and welfare, and the need to reform taxes if it is to avoid taking on too much at once in a world economy characterised by uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, and in an Australian Continue reading »
There’s something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare. Chemist Warehouse has about 550 retail pharmacies. Sigma has another 400. Yet the law limits owners to just a handful of pharmacies per state. Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria allow just five, Western Australia and Tasmania allow four, and South Australia allows six. The two Continue reading »
As the Australian opposition leader’s rhetoric softens dramatically, the days of turning China into an election wedge appear over. China hawks predictably attacked the Albanese government for being too soft on Beijing during Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia last week. After reiterating a commitment to ‘‘stabilising’’ ties, Li and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Continue reading »
Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its very foundations. More than 120 years since its inception, could the Zionist project in Palestine – the idea of imposing a Jewish state on an Continue reading »
Democratic leaders did not tell members to vote against an amendment to block the State Department from citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s statistics.
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From 2015: Donald Trump’s plans to make America great again are going to include a lot of whining. Trump on Tuesday morning in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” proclaimed that he is “the most fabulous whiner” when confronted with an opinion piece that criticized him using the same label. “I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win,” Trump told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday. This is what four year olds do before they learn that they can’t have everything they want when they want it. Trump never learned that lesson.
Today is a precious gift. Even if I do not walk out of this Target with a single, solitary Minecraft-themed item.
I am a confident and unique being who can pick up a Tech Deck mini skateboard, stare directly at the label ULTRA RARE, and feel absolutely no urge to beg or whine.
I admit that I am powerless against the words “collect them all” and will seek the support of my sponsor, Mom, when needed.
I accept that a BOGO deal on Nerf Dart Blasters is but an illusion of self-actualization.
I will choose to be happy. I recognize that I have been made to feel that I NEED that five-pack of Power Rangers Beast Morphers underwear, but I DO NOT NEED Power Rangers Beast Morphers underwear to be happy.
I believe in myself and my ability to pick out a remote-controlled Hot Wheels car for Jaxson’s birthday party without commentary on the subject of I, Too, Want One, because it is, in fact, NOT MY birthday.