A friend was telling me yesterday he went to either the doctors or the hospital because he had a really bad toothache, and he wanted some panadeine forte to reduce the pain.
Apparently the nurse more or less ran him out of the place, called him a drug user and all sorts of things, and all he wanted was a little pain relief.

The same thing happened to me a few months back, I did get a little bit of pushback when I asked for panadeine forte, but I got my way - though they weren't panadeine forte, some other thing.
I told the GP I just need a few days until I can get into a dental appointment and I promised I wouldn't be back.

I think I got about 10 tablets of whatever-it-was out of it, but I didn't need to take them all before my dental appointment, and I was ok after that.

You can probably get a script of high quality cannabis easier than you can get a script of panedeine forte these days.
All you have to say is that you're having trouble sleeping and they'll give you a medicinal cannabis license.
(FYI, I don't have one)

"As pointed out by myself as some see this now as a public safety issue, we need to audit all people in various sectors, the health sector being one of them. We need to find out what the exact views of individuals are and if they don't fit in or resonate with certain values and principles, we turf them out. The challenge will be dealing with those who lie and keep their true feelings to themselves, but if it's truly a public safety issue and not a political one, then we need to take action and address as soon as possible."

That is the really chilling part of this discussion. Authoritarian regimes are obsessed with weeding out the bad people and consequently set up organisations like the Stasi in East Germany and the morals police in Iran which end up torturing and tormenting good citizens.

That the two nurses were dismissed hours after their hateful public comments shows that the health regulators are doing their job. The police and courts will determine whether crimes have been committed and dispense justice according to the laws if appropriate. Why is there a need for further scrutiny like Albo's thought police?

My concern is that people don't get the opportunity to harm good citizens by gaining authority to "weed out the bad people". I bear no malice toward such people other than curtailing their hateful ambitions toward others.

"But let's all ignore the babies returned coffins even though it was "a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah,"

When the coffins of the babies were opened to do DNA testing they found them filled with Hamas propaganda. Swine.

Israeli authorities are also of the opinion that the corpse in the mother's coffin isn't the mother. The guess is that what happened to her was too grotesque to allow the body to be released so they substituted another not realising that DNA testing would reveal the truth. Well they still do live in the 7th century!.

Meanwhile from the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia: "What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah."

From the The Grand Mufti of Dubai, Ahmed al-Haddad: ‘Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before.’

Is the Arab world now signalling to Israel that its time to take the gloves off as regards Hamas?

The UAE are not For the Palestinians, they're against them.
5000 IDF soldiers have visited there since the war began, do your homework.

http://www.alestiklal.net/en/article/fighting-in-gaza-enjoying-holiday-in-dubai-why-do-israeli-soldiers-choose-the-uae-for-leisure

"Recreational Program

Emirates Leaks, the opposition website, revealed on September 5, that the UAE government, led by President Mohammed bin Zayed, offers a special recreational program for Israeli soldiers.

This arrangement was reportedly made through an agreement between the UAE government and the Israeli Occupation government under Benjamin Netanyahu, who is accused of war crimes in Gaza."

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/the-gulf/1673330007-more-than-150-000-israelis-visited-united-arab-emirates-in-2022

"In the last 10 months of 2022, more than 150,000 Israelis traveled to the United Arab Emirates, media reported on Monday.

The two countries, which normalized relations in 2020 under the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, have been bridging ties through tourism."

I must be a little behind in the news, I haven't seen or read anything about these current events regarding the handover of dead Israeli hostages.
[I'm currently preparing to move and spending a lot of time converting a shipping container into a combination shed / small dwelling, which needs to be completed and sold before I move.]

2022.05.18 Why “A Clean Break” Matters
http://youtu.be/Z1LYNy8bhf8
R.I.P. Gonzalo Lira.

Dear Critic,

Before the Iraq war, Kuwaiti women used to walk in public 6 meters behind their husbands.

After the war, where Kuwait was taken over by Iraq then freed by the Americans, tourists noticed that the women were now walking 6 meters ahead of their husbands.

"That's impressive, how you progressed so quickly on women's rights!", they said, to which the tourist-guide responded:
"Ah this - that's because of the Iraqi land mines".

I suspect that you too wouldn't treat your own wife any better had your life and limb been at stake, how less so an unrelated stranger.

So that part of sending an 80-year old Arab ahead is believable, not so the other nonsensical embellishments to this story.

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Dear Mhaze,

«the baying mobs cheered while a cartoon version of a Jew made to look like a vampire looked on.»

That was not just any Jew - it was clearly an image of Netanyahu.