Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Al Jazeera English" channel.

  1. Which reminds me of what is a lot of it for a man. Compare Charles Maurice de Talleyrand​: "A married man with children will do anything for money." Cp. also Cyril Connolly: "The most sombre enemy of good art is the pram in the hallway." (And why not politics and statecraft as well?)
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  2. To them, those children died a glorious death in the name of the Muscovite Rus. Every dead Ukrainian child makes the Russian Federation stronger. Are you throwing up yet?
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  3.  @Houthiandtheblowfish  China pays 50 cents a pop and accepts freelancers. How about you go that way?
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  4. The interviewer is thoroughly contemptible. Pure cad.
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  5. How many? 15%? 25? That minority are very fine people, but talk to me when it hits 55. As a robust generality Russians are stuck in feudalism and born to be ruled. Basically their hearts reside in 1900, which is about 1740 in Western terms. Even medieval times still reverberate loudly in their ethos. They panic and sweat if anyone suggests they should be in charge of themselves. Seriously. Pickled in servility to a King (i.e. National Strict Dad) like so many beets in vinegar.
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  6. I know nothing about climatology, though I do have a science background (U. Toronto). I am thus lost in this ongoing debate and have little to offer, except to relate, if it's worth anything, the somewhat inspiring example of those two Australians who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2005, and those who preceded them in their work. For years, 97% of scientists working in gastric medicine pointed to an established consensus that acid causes peptic ulcers and they rejected and personally shunned those few researchers who felt their work showed that a spiral bacterium, H. Pylori, was the culprit. They were right, of course, and now we take antibiotics for stomach ulcers, which are cured by them. In my view, that story offers a chance to learn some very important things about science, life, and people. It was very much in my mind as I watched the treatment offered to Dr. Lindzen.
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  7. Maybe it saved the life of at least one Ukrainian, or one Russian dissident.
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  8. ​ @goldenaye3  He is just like the many men Putin is surrounded by: men who tell him exactly how he can prove himself a big stud, and not a 5'4" shrimp and Petersburg street urchin with a chin implant at all. He responds to that, so that becomes what they do. It's rather like it was with Stalin and the tsars. 'He will not turn on you as long as you seem to believe in his fearlessness,' is the thought.
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