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Several days ago Ann Widdicombe, a colourful and sometimes controversial former British Conservative MP and minister who later became a Reform UK spokesperson, was found dead in her home having sustained serious injuries.. Initially the police did not ascribe a political or terrorism motive to...

More than once. Obviously not an unusual occurrence. The unusual is when it has a catastrophic result. https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/business-inputs/article/2023/05/05/can-farmer-held-liable-blowing-dust...

There is the obvious meme from Red October but it raises a question. He answers it. RIP

Preliminary cause of death for Senator Graham https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/12/grahams-office-releases-preliminary-cause-of-death-00994310 Coincidently, I recently commented in another thread about aortic dissection.

It is possible that there is skullduggery involved in the public announcements about McConnell's health (it's politics, so it's a given that there's skullduggery), but it is unlikely that the reason is so they can move money around. McConnell was not seeking reelection in November and his FEC...

Graham spent $27 million so far just on the primary; six years ago he spent $104 million on his re-election campaign. That was for a "safe" Republican seat. An article from last month. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-27-million-primary-campaign_n_6a231675e4b0a18aef0c0c28 With a...

The starter's pistol has already gone off and as early as next week those Republicans scrambling to replace Graham in this November's election can file the paperwork for a very quick primary. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-death-reelection-seat.html

At least his pilot stayed in the plane. https://nationalpost.com/news/world/student-pilot-left-to-land-the-plane-after-flight-instructor-jumps-to-his-death

And to real "Emergency" response times . . . https://bbc.com/news/articles/c70yd2y6geyo Without excusing the response of the emergency service, catching an aortic dissection is extremely difficult. There was one case of a patient who presented to our facility in Lahr, after we had closed as...

Rampart 10-4. IV D5W TKO.

The LCol (with pilot wings) seated to the general's left looks like Paul Manson (later to be CDS, '86 to '89).

Some background. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/07/why-farage-quitting-mp-scrutiny-gifts-clacton-reform-uk https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-resigns-clacton-byelection-cost-taxpayer-b3010518.html And response from the other parties...

It's not so much that Germany's primary medical care system is in great shape, but that federally mandated, employer paid sick leave benefits for all employees (who participate in the statutory public health insurance scheme) are exceedingly generous compared to any jurisdiction on this side of...

https://gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-community/building-from-memory/

Entirely appropriate to conflate hockey as religious events in Canada.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260605/t013a-eng.htm

The choices available in Toronto was greater than those in St John's Nfld. There wasn't much difference twenty years later if you lived in a village outside of Lahr. Though there was CFN, I could only get it sporadically and poorly. There were a couple of German channels and (having a TV...

Rest in Peace I was surprised to see this news because I thought (not that I thought much, if any, about it) that he had already passed away. It also surprised me that he was only (a comparatively young) 89 years old. In the early 60s, to a young lad, he seemed much older that the...