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Mr. Biden was there looking for the two pots of gold at end of the double rainbow, and that's no malarkey or blarney!

Missile defence exercises now? Better late than never...

France does have its history of removing tyrants.

Absurdly low amount. Probably doesn't even cover the cost of the solicitor who filed the case.

Sponsorship by the VSA would have been so ironic to all the women worldwide who will be watching... "visit the Kingdom, but please bring an abaya and a male relative to escort you and drive you." (Yes, I have visited the Kingdom more than once and seen a female relative of mine switched by the religious police because they thought they saw her ankle, and the next day I saw a foreign woman pedestrian hit by a car driven by some careless men who laughed about it, and the police told her it was her fault for even being in the Kingdom. Not the kind of place that would appeal to a female television audience.)

I'm seriously impressed with Mexico beating both the USA and Puerto Rico. We've seen Mexico's other pitcher, Patrick Sandoval, on those Japan-broadcasted Angels games, and he has quality stuff betrayed only by an inconsistent-hitting team. Put him on a team like the Dodgers or Astros and he'd be considered an elite thrower.

But was his tagging work any good? I have seen some of the most amazing graffiti art in my trips around this world. (Not saying I want it on my car, of course, unless it's a Banksy that would increase its value.)

I'm sorry little one, I hope you rest in peace and the disturbed person who did this to you is apprehended and given the help she needs.

The key to any defence industry is government-issued "cost-plus" contracts, where the government will reimburse the company for whatever it spends to make the product, PLUS a guaranteed profit. There is no downside - only upside - and these Japanese companies only need to look at the USA defence companies and see how it is done extremely lucratively. And the companies costs are usually significantly padded with extensive cost overruns and needless redundant and featherbedding processes, so there is plenty of sugar baked into the cake from the get-go.

It's a bad move to allow voting to captive peoples who are subject to mandatory government indoctrination five days per week in government-run schools.

Without a sharp change in production and diet, the study concluded, global food consumption will boost Earth's average surface temperature 0.7C and 0.9C by century's end.

All of you who are bothered by this need to be the first to stop eating. Go ahead, I appreciate your dedication and sacrifice. If your starvation has any effect, I will honor your efforts by moderating my consumption.

Commanteer is correct, the Police always have to tie up the case and send it to the Prosecutors, regardless of whether the suspect is deceased. The purpose is to rule out other suspects.

Petro-majors are still a good long-term investment. My hope is that as demand reduces in the Northern Hemisphere due to electrification, that the Global South will have less competition in powering their own economies with petroleum (and be able to afford it), and improve the standards of living for hundreds of millions of people.

There's nothing to worry about. We were reassured in January 2021 that the adults were in charge after four years of turbulence. Just look at Mr. Biden's budget submission - the economy is doing so well that the budget primarily focuses on climate change and equity. Financial crisis? Not on Ms. Yellen's watch!

This is intractable, at least until demographics catches up to Israel - the Palestinians are having far more children than the Israelis (other than the Orthodox Jews) and eventually will vastly outnumber the Jews, both inside Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza.

In today's age, where revenge politics are a hallmark of many countries including the US and Israel, and former leaders are regularly investigated, arrested or jailed, I cannot blame Mr. Netanyahu for trying to leave himself an outlet. 'A good lawyer knows the law, a great lawyer knows the judge." And a great politician appoints the judge, just like Mr. Lula de Silva.

Japanese television reported he chartered a jet for the one-way trip at 40-50 million yen (around 300,000-400,000 Euros.)

Does he want to be dictator? No. But maybe King Benjamin? As king, he'd get to be supreme judge and head of the judiciary, and could appoint whomever he wanted to be lesser judges. Restoration of the long-lost monarchy and the rebuilding of the temple are not-so-secret desires of many in his coalition.

I wish he had given up opening his trap for Lent. And beyond.

This clearly has the fingerprints of Ms. Fernandez de Kirchner all over it. She is the dominant figure in the party and with elections coming up, is going to try to rile up her base with nationalistic jingoism, because their record of governing has been horrible.

This will be enjoyable to watch and should also have little chance of any stupid political statements or controversies. No issues with vaccination status or the host country's human rights record or workers dying to build the stadiums. Just let me watch baseball! (And give Mr. Murakami the opportunity to test himself against foreign pitchers.)

The death toll will continue to rise from secondary casualties (from cold, sickness, suicide) and malnutrition. It will rise past 100,000. There is no way to house the number of displaced persons, even on the relatively peaceful side of the Turkish-Syrian border. Corruption in Erdogan's government will siphon off much of any aid and reconstruction funding.

Mr. Netanyahu looked over at Brazil and saw that if he can stock the courts with his appointees, he knows his allies will overturn any convictions he gets and will support him in any future contested elections. Lula is his role model!

My family and I significantly contributed to the increased sales.

BTW, is there any snow this year at this "upmarket ski resort"?

"We are all stuck in a crisis mindset," WEF executive chairman and founder Klaus Schwab told the pre-meeting news conference.

(So never let a crisis go to waste, right? I'm sure Klaus and his team are looking to take advantage of this.)

A third security guard fled the scene with money and jewelry.

And it happened at 3 a.m., so this all sounds like an inside job. If the Taliban wanted to eliminate her, they could have done so way before now.

I'm with Michael Machida - can't they find better targets than a ward office in Tokyo?

If there are no interleague games on the final weekend (Weekend 18) and I am pretty sure there are not (the plan was to have all divisions have intra-divisional games on the last weekend), then this is really just an AFC problem. Let the NFC stay on its normal schedule and the conference winner gets two weeks off before the Super Bowl; the AFC teams will all get a bye week while they make up this Bengals-Bills game but the conference winner will get no bye week before the Super Bowl. Having a rest right now for all potential playoff teams will produce better football in January than a planned rest for just the conference champion the first weekend in February.

Look, any country would probably summon the French ambassador if their own head of state was ridiculed with gross or disgusting comics, as this French magazine likes to do. Most countries have some kind of laws against ridicule of their supreme leaders (compare Thailand's, for example), so it's incomprehensible that someone outside the reach of their penal code can do it with impunity. But along those lines, since this is Iran, and since the French ambassador does have an embassy in Tehran that can be stormed by so-called student activists, perhaps there is a veiled threat here that Mr. Macron's government should evaluate.

It wasn't too many months ago when Europeans were praying for a mild winter so they wouldn't run out of power and freeze to death. So now their prayers have been answered, and there isn't much gratefulness.