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62% of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters 'would prefer a meteor extinguish 'All Human Life' than Trump get re-elected' a University of Massachusetts Lowell survey finds.https://t.co/UX2kbDGjzK pic.twitter.com/r6Ot84Lj0X
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51434470
Apologies to Spinal Tap.
I'd have answered Meteor strike too. Because I hate Trump, and for shits&giggles.
If they are so desperate to get rid of Trump why on earth is Sanders winning the NH primary by looks of polling?
"QAnon believers are convinced that Trump is secretly at war with pedophile-cannibals in the Democratic Party, a theory so unhinged and potent that the FBI considers it a potential source of domestic terrorism."
QAnon conspiracy theorists are telling people to drink bleach as a cure against the deadly Wuhan coronavirus
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-coronavirus-wuhan-cure-qanon-mms-bleach-conspiracy-2020-1?r=US&IR=T
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-fda-is-literally-warning-people-not-to-drink-bleach-now
Particularly notable that remainers got more intolerant with higher levels of education, whilst leavers with degrees were the most tolerant demographic found.
Replace "height" with "race" or even "weight", and you're on to a definite winner.
US pastor runs network giving 50,000 Ugandans bleach-based 'miracle cure'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/18/bleach-miracle-cure-uganda-us-pastor-robert-baldwin-sam-little
https://twitter.com/Liam_Lee92/status/1226526827633631233?s=20
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-is-running-out-of-gas?ref=home
The simple fact that Biden was so obviously past it forced the Dems to turn to Hilary Clinton - and the rest was catastrophe.
In the past 2 G.E. in Ireland they surged only to crash at the very last minute, this time though since Fine Gael and Fianna Fail were in a loose coalition together, Sinn Fein had the opposition to themselves.
It's simple, parties who supported the government fell and the opposition rose.
*Cough*Super Over in a world cup final*Cough*
1. To balance the ticket having a conservative old white guy.
2. Biden's political base was so small and Biden so old that he was not a political threat to Obama.
3. To deploy Biden to be his shield against Hillary inside the Party.
Hillary was going to run after Obama anyway, an informal deal had already been struck in 2008.
The Tory/Brexit poll was more serious but also more understandable. If you care a great deal about England and its independence, it doesn't necessarily mean you care that much about the Union. Frankly I should think only a few people in Britain care whether Northern Ireland eventually joins Eire or goes independent or stays part of the UK - whatever they want is fine with us, no? We just didn't want to be terorrised into it by the IRA. And accepting economic damage to achieve what you think is a decisive question of indendence is a defensible point of view.
It's still literally the case in some parts of the world. But in most places it's moved on to Cats/Prods, Sunni/Shia, United/City, Democrat/Republican. Passions run high but usually not violently.
I'm not a member of any football tribe but I was a member of the Remain tribe until I simply opted out - not to join the opposing team but just to stop playing the game. It was no longer exciting.
Is the world more partisan than it was? I'm not sure that it is. There have been periods of widespread security and prosperity when tribal behaviour was confined to football teams. But when people feel threatened they revert to more serious tribes. And people in many countries feel threatened.
The party has retrospectively re-written the rules to leave one of them in the clear, and then reported the other to the Information Commissioner.
Yes, that all sounds healthy.
Sodium chlorite, the main constituent of MMS, is a toxic chemical[3][4] that can cause acute kidney failure[5] if ingested. Small amounts of about 1 gram can be expected to cause nausea, vomiting, shedding of internal mucous membranes such as those of the small and large intestine (producing so-called "rope worms") and even life-threatening hemolysis in persons who are deficient in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.
There's planes destined for the UK that have ended up in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, among other places. The Emirates flight to Manchester went around twice before deciding to head to Holland.
Nah, it's just an end of an era that you liked and a beginning of one that you don't understand.
It happens all the time, just think of the Communists in 1990.
As I said, we ingest harmful substance in safe quantities all the time. There is toxic fluoride in your toothpaste and in our water. But it's there at a safe dilution. Our leading treatment for cancer is the ingestion of deadly poisons, and yes, sometimes we do die from them.
It would appear that this substance is used against pathogens as an industrial cleaner. If there's a way to ingest it (or otherwise administer it) that is harmless to the human but probably still harmful in some way to the pathogen, it is hardly surprising that it is taking off.
Maybe MPs got the Speaker they deserved for the same reason?
Or maybe it was New Labour's naked partisanship in electing Bercow despite Conservative opposition that gave us the Speaker we didn't deserve?
Not sure.
#morethatunites
Even if they are in such low doses as to be harmless they prevent patients from speaking real help (see homeopathy).
There are no clinical trials for these quack health cures and it's unlikely there ever will be, because they are cheap chemicals that cannot be patented. In their absence, the hysterical denunciations are par for the course. People must make up their own minds on the information available.
It is worth remembering at this juncture that maintaining a political union with Scotland and Northern Ireland alike requires a very considerable yearly outlay of English taxpayers' money to places where much of the population feels resentful, dominated, is desperate to get away, has an intense dislike of the English, or some combination of two or more of these things. What value, therefore, from the point of view of the ordinary English voter, is to be had in keeping it on life support?
Northern Ireland is a relic of colonialism and religious sectarianism, the Union with Scotland is the product of 18th century concerns that no longer apply, and there is, in any event, absolutely no interest in reforming the Union in such a fashion is to make it a structure that is equitable and addresses the needs and concerns of all its members. So if it's going to die why not just let it?
The danger of using the chemical (and from the stuff posted today about Chlorine dioxide it is the same) is with its immediate corrosive effects. There is no stated cumulative impact - one's body itself actually produces hydrogen peroxide naturally.
The biggest hoot in all this Bercow Peerage whining is Bercow complaining about the government not following precedent!
I could smoke a hundred fags a day until I die aged 99. That doesn’t mean smoking isn’t bad for your health, it just means I got lucky.
Plus voting against the Speaker risks not being called so often (if at all) - and Bercow did like to play favourites (as have other Speakers in the past - but probably not to the same extent)
But I am not trying to convince you. You do you.