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[rain_gryphon]

Another heroic dog. I like that they're careful to point out that he's a pitbull, and was taken in as a stray. Dogs are largely what you make of them. I'm sure there's a pithily relevant Mark Twain comment for this, but I can't find it.

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The President of Chad dies in combat against his people's enemies. My virtual hat is off to him. That's a fate more characteristic of a King than a President.

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India's going through another outbreak of the Chinese Doom. The reported death toll seems ludicrously small, especially with five hour lines to enter a crematorium, and reports of unclaimed bodies in the streets, and is almost certainly many, many times greater, probably by orders of magnitude.

It interests me that of the many thousands of words dedicated to analyzing the situation by the MSM, none of them mention India's giving away its vaccines via COVAX as a contributing cause. It's entirely the fault of a cricket tournament, a religious festival, election rallies, or general lassitude on the Indians' part.

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[allaboutweather.livejournal.com]

You could say President Déby died like a Chad. It's almost unheard of for a head of state to lead their own troops into battle.

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

Deby was Chad's version of Papa Doc Duvalier. He basically won his recent "re-election" by means of intimidation and murder. In no way, shape or form does he deserve to be lionised.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/28/chad-opposition-candidate-says-security-forces-raided-his-home

https://www.praesidio.uk.com/news/chad-opposition-leader-quits-presidential-race-after-shoot-out/

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

It rather astonishes me that those who insist the planet is egregiously overpopulated are the very same ones who wail and gnash their teeth proclaiming "Even one death is too many!" Personally, I can't conceive of a more equable or biologically appropriate way to deal with overpopulation than a global pandemic. Given that, proponents of the view that Earth is overpopulated should instead be loudly insisting that the present death toll is vastly short of what is required to restore balance to Gaia. What we really need is something on the order of the Plague of Justinian: not just 3 million deaths, but 3 BILLION. I can hardly conceive of anything better for Mother Earth than restoring numbers of H. sapiens to 1960 levels. This would solve literally every environmental problem that alarmists say presently threatens us. No. We don't need fewer deaths. We need orders of magnitude more!