Lloyd Maybaum

Past-President of the Calgary and Area Medical Staff Society (CAMSS). Physician/Psychiatrist. All comments are my own- not affiliated with any organization!

[Dr. Mizanur Rahman @mizanrsharif]

Ilan Goldenberg articulated the most likely scenario of another quagmire of the U.S. in the Middle East.

“The U.S. now finds itself in the naval and air equivalent of the dynamic we faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a recipe for a quagmire where we win every battle and lose the war. We have overwhelming military dominance and are exacting a tremendous cost. But Iran doesn’t need to win battles. They just need occasional successes. A small boat hitting a tanker. A drone slipping through defenses in the Gulf. A strike on a hotel or oil facility. Each incident creates insecurity and drives costs up while remind everyone that the regime is surviving and fighting.”

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@StephenKing Everyone for me as well!

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@ronsterd89 I’m guessing 1971

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@Norma5387953815 3591

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@brianlilley Could an individual be more out of touch than you Brian? Your article nitpicks that he made no mention of China/Russia when in fact he mentioned no hegemony. He spoke of the fracturing of the western alliance of which China and Russia are not a part. Mainstream media indeed🙄

[Lloyd Maybaum @LloydMaybaum]

@RovereHouse @RobFai Your first 6 points describe the western world - nothing at all uniquely Canadian.

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@RobFai Agree - he is a leader and a leader that Canada and the world needs. I see him as neither liberal nor conservative but the man of the moment.

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@DuaneBratt Totally agree.

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@RajSherman @NightShiftMD @MartinLongUCP Raj - good to hear your voice again!

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@MarkJCarney Sir. A truly outstanding speech, timely and prescient. A rallying cry for middle powers . Very proud to have you as our prime minister

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@politicsusa46 Time stamp this speech. It will be recorded as one of the most timely and prescient speeches of this century. Truly outstanding and inspiring.

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@_HenryBolton @NightShiftMD So you are suggesting that if the USA tries to use military force to take Greenland Canada should join the JEF to defend Greenland. Okay, then the USA immediately pivots and goes after their real objective, Canada, and takes the country within a day. As per @grok :

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

🎤 I Am Not Woke

I am a woman.
I am Gen X.
Which means I was raised on hot hose water, unsupervised bike riding, and the understanding that if you’re bleeding but still conscious, you’re probably fine.

I am not emotionally injured by words.
I have survived mall bangs, dial-up internet, and New Coke.
You are not going to take me out with a tweet.

I believe in equality.
Not the Oppression Olympics, where everyone shows up with a clipboard and a backstory.

I am a strong woman.
I pay my bills.
I change my tire.
I handle my life.

But yes, I still want a man who opens jars, kills spiders, checks the noise in the basement, and says,
“Relax. I’ve got this,”
while holding a flashlight he definitely does not know how to use properly.

That is not patriarchy.
That is foreplay.
That is chemistry.

Somewhere in the last decade, feminism stopped being about opportunity and turned into a poorly dubbed workplace orientation video that never ends.

Now everything is “toxic.”
Except the people screaming it on social media at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday with 14 pronouns and a coffee addiction.

We turned “live and let live” into
“live exactly like me or prepare for a 37-tweet thread.”

Disagreement is now violence.
Silence is now violence.
Looking at someone wrong is probably violence.

Everyone has a label, a trigger, a diagnosis, and a podcast.
No one has a sense of humor.
Personal grace is rarer than Sasquatch.

We replaced confidence with outrage.
Facts with feelings.
And actual problems with performance art.

I do not need a seminar to exist.
I do not need a warning label on jokes.
I do not need a committee to approve my opinions.

I am a woman.
I am independent.
I am emotionally stable.
I like men who act like men.
I like women who do not hate them for it.
And I would like to enjoy my coffee without being educated.

My wish for 2026 is simple:
May woke finally go to sleep.
Put on its little eye mask.
Take a melatonin.
Log off the internet.
And let the rest of us get back to living.

I am not woke.
I am awake.
And I would like my culture back,
preferably without a training session.

Happy New Year friends!
May this be the year we shed the cloak of woke for good and start living our lives as intended... Free.

[Lloyd Maybaum @LloydMaybaum]

@kinsellawarren Warren, honestly you should take this post down. Posts like this serve to discredit you.

[Curious_King @CuriousKing_]

It’s that time of year where we all think about giving, so we thought we would host a #giveaway for a nice #CuriousKing SWAG BUNDLE!

One lucky winner will win the following CK haul!

CK Art Print (from DSNX)
CK Pin
The Fifth Season Art Print
Standard tier copy of #Legend

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@CuriousKing_ All hail the King!!

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@RossKneeDeep Made those in junior high school - a change purse of sorts

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https://t.co/dWmWbXwvAw

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This is a seemingly simple solution to the problem of wait lists and funding in our current health-care system.
Some effort to find acceptance of a queue jumping model such as this may be required, but it seems possible that if we allow paid jumping to occur, everyone would eventually win. Think about it. Let’s try to keep those health-care dollars in Alberta and put them to work for Albertans. I’m prepared to take the flak for making this suggestion. Is anybody willing to consider it? Would the Premier or Health Minister be willing to risk trying something different? What do Albertans think?

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About 15 years ago I proposed an alternative to privatization of healthcare in an article that I wrote for Vital Signs magazine. It is time to resurrect this idea. An idea that was picked up by the AIMS institute and also presented in an economics book. The article was called The Heretic…
@DonBraid @DennisKendel @Albertadoctors @CMA_Docs @NightShiftMD @calgaryherald @CBCEyeopener @CBCHomestretch @Alberta_UCP @ABDanielleSmith @albertaNDP @nenshi

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If this plan were successful, other provinces may catch on and initiate their own queue jumping program. If Alberta were to strike first, we would have a head start on reducing our wait lists and therefore be in a position to undercut other provinces. In essence, provinces might compete with each other for jumpers.