A certain Big 4 accounting firm had a client who wanted a cat-catcher license in the Canal Zone, a jurisdiction no longer in existence. Big 4 would also work on the matter. I didn’t bother to vette the client because Big 4, who presumably had done their accounting, was along for the ride. The client soon discovered that getting a cat-catching license in the Canal Zone is no trivial matter. You must show that you are experienced and have books, manuals and appropriate guidelines in place, like a “Know Your Breed” (KYB) procedure.

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The Thai Prime Minister, Prayut Chan o Cha, visited Riyadh on Tuesday, January 25th. Following his visit, the two countries announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations. What caused the breach? Thirty years ago, a Thai gardener stole 100 kilograms of gems from Prince Faisal, son of the then king, King Fahd. Among these was a rare, fifty-carat blue diamond. The Thai police quickly found the culprit and recovered the gems. But the stones they returned to Saudi Arabia were fake.

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Freedom from responsibility. America’s freedoms have been boiled down to one issue: “do they make you wear a mask?” Maybe this should be added to the Bill of Rights. “Arrive on vacation, leave on probation.”

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The MSM has pushed Ivermectin as a horse dewormer, and anyone who attempts to contradict this dogma runs the risk of censure and deplatforming. But now there’s this: This implies that 89% of the participants benefited from taking Ivermectin as a form of preexposure chemoprophylaxis. Ivermectin has a significant clinical benefit as a preventive drug against COVID-19 for hospital personnel in settings with limited resources. Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975139/

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Following a crash involving a dump truck, three macaques escaped from their cages while being transported to a CDC-approved quarantine center. The macaques had just arrived from Africa; the breed can carry the Ebola virus and in the past has transmitted it to humans. After a brief monkey hunt, the escaped macaques were captured by police and euthanized. As none of the other monkeys were euthanized, it is unlikely that the CIDC has provided the whole story.

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CNN, at least in this instance, has stopped calling Ivermectin a veterinary medicine and more accurately states, 𝙸𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚟𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜. Finally.

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The last time I flew on an A-380 was in business class returning to Dubai from Munich. Today I am flying economy and the aircraft is configured for maximum capacity in a 3-4-3 configuration. The flight is completely full. I am on the aisle and suffer pushes, knocks, bumps and bruises inflicted.by everyone who walks by. Though I have an aisle seat on my left there is an elderly Iranian couple who believe themselves to be on mask compliance and control, they reported me to a flight attendant when I removed my mask to blow my nose.

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Two years ago, there was no treatment for the Sickness; in that context I predicted that the pandemic would go away once an effective treatment was available. Yet here we are, two years later, with many treatments on offer and the world still frightened; going to Yellow Alert because of Omicron and speaking already of renewed lockdowns. Here are a few treatments: apixaban budesonide prednisone pantoprazole monoclonal antibodies loprinavir-ritronavir Notice that none of these were recommended by Donald Trump.

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The separatist war that birthed South Sudan was particularly brutal. The northern part of the country is the site of the traditional capital, Khartoum; the south mostly undeveloped. The language of the north is Arabic and the religion Islam; the south speaks with many tongues and follows faiths that were once called primitive. The north controlled industry and had an organized army, the south, petroleum resources. The north controlled perhaps the country’s most precious resource, gum arabic, a material found only in Sudan and which is an essential component of modern industrialized agriculture and industry itself.

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