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Dr. Harvey Kaltsas, Acupuncture Physician, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Writer, Educator, Shipwreck Searcher, Father of 3, Grandfather of 3

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@Shoshana51728 Anti-semitism can be so sick and delusional. If Jews somehow were involved in getting rid of Platner, we should all be thanking and praising them. But they probably had little to do with it.

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@HistContent Seriously, what is it with the handbags, going back even to Gonelli Tepe and even to Peru?
Somehow I see them as a power source.

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Canada was once a great country. Shows you what unbridled leftist workers can do in a couple of generations. I do have one good thing to say about the country though: Les Moncrieff of Vancouver pioneered Bio electrode Therapy (BeT) which is excellent for knee pain problems such as yours. Check him out on YouTube videos, or DM me and I can send you a simple protocol. Thanks for your service. I treat many vets as part of the VA's Community Care program. You I would advise for free.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Air Canada

So now that I’m back from my Norway cruise, there are a few travel-related stories I want to tell.

Let’s start with this: IMO, @AirCanada is by far the worst international carrier I have ever flown on. Avoid at all costs.

I’ve flown them twice; the first time was a trip years ago to Berlin where we transferred in London. They lost our bags for TWO WHOLE WEEKS. Do you know that Tesco sells virtually no clothing that fits someone who is 6’5”? The bags instead went to Milan and they were waiting on our doorstep in D.C. when we got home.

That was the first trip. Now let’s talk about the one I just took (my cruise line, Viking Ocean, booked Air Canada for us, not me—I should have said no).

I’m about to talk about Flight AC 866 on June 12, 2026, from Montreal to London.

We flew into Montreal from our home U.S. airport on Air Canada's domestic-style business class, which was just basically shoddy, rundown and depressing. As some of you know I just had major knee surgery and I had therefore requested wheelchair assistance for the transfer to the international flight. Nope, nobody there. To get to immigration was about a mile walk. I attribute the current post-op problems I am having to the fact that I had to make that walk. It was brutal, and while my knee had been recovering nicely until then, that walk set it back and I’m still suffering.

But we made it through the interminable immigration lines and boarded Flight 866 in Montreal en route to London.

Or so we thought.

Turns out, they had the wrong plane. By the “wrong plane,” I mean the WRONG PLANE. They had sold tickets for a differently configured aircraft than the one we were boarding. Guess what? It seems they didn’t even figure this out until PEOPLE ACTUALLY STARTED BOARDING. Let me say that again. The fact that they had sold tickets to the wrong type airplane was not identified until people got on board and their seat did not exist.

As a retired U.S. Army logistician I find this utterly incomprehensible. How do you make such a mistake?

Chaos ensued.

First, they stopped boarding with the plane about 25% full. (@MrsDrPublius and I got onboard before they figured it out because we had bought business class tickets.)

Then we just sat there on the plane as the minutes and hours ticked by and the pilots, ground staff and flight crew hurriedly rushed up and down the aisles looking worried. (At least we were seated. ~75% of the passengers were still in the terminal.) No one was telling us anything except that the flight was delayed because of some unspecified ticketing issues.

Then they tried this crazy thing where they made everybody stay seated and write their name and the number of the seat they were sitting in on a piece of paper and hand it in. I don’t know what they thought that would accomplish, but it was useless. It was the Keystone Kops, poutine style.

Then they made us all get off the plane.

Then they re-booked every single person’s boarding pass in the system. Laboriously. Painfully. I heard complaints that people were kicked off the flight because there was no seat for them. People who had booked business class were sent to economy because there were too few business class seats. The delay was causing mass missed connecting flights in London when/if we ever did arrive.

This was one of those international Airbus jets with ~300 passengers. I honestly thought there might be a riot in the terminal. For a while it looked like we never would fly.

Almost 6 hours later, we took off and actually did make it to London, eventually.

The next day they sent me a survey to let them know how they did. It was the worst survey I have ever written for any business in my entire life, and I separately demanded some sort of compensation for the incredible inconvenience their incompetence caused. It’s three weeks later, and they have yet to reply.

So now I’m writing this post.

You could have at least APOLOGIZED, @AirCanada. Rarely do I use this platform to complain about some personal issue with a business, but you earned it.

Maybe next time at least acknowledge to your customers that you screwed up?

Grrrrr….🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡

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@eisenhowe8 Ricardo, please show the courtesy to check with a closer source before muddying Ike's name.

[Brian Cory Dobbs @BrianCoryDobbs]

Multicellular life only emerged in the last 10% of Earth's history. Before that, microbes formed films, mats, and stromatolites, cooperatively managing entire ecosystems. The line between a colony of microbes and a multicellular organism is thinner than most people realize.

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@HomerPavlos Homer Pavlos, you have captured this moment perfectly. Thanks for sharing this wisdom so eloquently.

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@NoaDalzell Cover Chris and Hugo.

[Brian Cory Dobbs @BrianCoryDobbs]

I don't think it's attached to the flat piece at the bottom. They're angled differently.

It's also thicker than these flat pieces.

With a different lighting angle, yes, it might reveal a wider and flatter shape.

Too bad NASA didn't have enough curiosity to look at it further.

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@BrianCoryDobbs @JeanWardMars If instead of being metal that rod were plastic or wooden, that would be even MORE amazing. I'm sticking with metal.

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@BrianCoryDobbs Ahh, the irony.

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@RealJamesWoods Yes, he fears Guam is in danger of tipping over into the Pacific.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Like Hamas like Hezbollah.

An IDF unit in southern Lebanon went in to find Hezbollah tunnels in a civilian village and started searching house to house.

Then they walk into a bedroom, a freaking bedroom, and find a huge cache of weapons enough to wage a small war.

This is what Islamists do. They embed themselves and hide among civilians, stashing weapons and gear inside civilian homes and schools and hospitals and put the civilian population in direct danger.

All of this is war crimes, yet countries like France remain completely silent and instead condemn Israel.

There will never be peace so long as the West continues to appease and defend the jihadists in exchange for oil and money

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@DrGregLittle2 @MobiusCoffee And then Ohio State U. trademarked the word "the."

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@tihitanatargol @RapidResponse47 @StateDept @POTUS @CENTCOM From your mouth to CENTCOM's ears.

[MIGA Voice @tihitanatargol]

@RapidResponse47 @StateDept @POTUS For a Terrorist, Ideological regime, power plants, bridges, even the loss of civilian lives are not what matter most. Instead of striking bridges and power infrastructure, target the regime's Military and Political Leadership. You will reach your objective much faster.
@CENTCOM

[Josh Ferme @JoshFerme]

The Odyssey releases on the 17th of July, and I do not want a single one of you watching it.

Christopher Nolan has desecrated one of Europe’s foundational myths. This film deserves to fail. Do not give it your money!

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@PatrickByrne You have quite an appreciation for language, Patrick. English, Greek, Latin. Almost as impressive as your dedication to find and express truth. You are a very special American patriot. Kudos.

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You should include the musicians from the group America, all Air Force kids stationed in Britain during the 60's. John Phillips was my friend Tom George's roommate in D.C. in 1960. Phillips got his girlfriend pregnant, bummed $200 off Tom for an abortion, then left t I was for Californua and never paid Tom back. John then took revenge on his wife Michelle who later had an affair with the other Papa by getting their daughter addicted to heroine and having sex with her repeatedly. Helluva guy and quite the role model.