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"No one expects this is going to happen to them - certainly not in a hospital ... We're going to ask you to find him guilty of capital murder, because that's what he did."The four patients were recovering from heart surgery at the Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas.
"The Communist Party faction in the Moscow City Duma... does not recognize the results of the elections in the city of Moscow in single-mandate districts to the State Duma. We do not recognize the results of electronic voting... In protest, we are leaving the meeting."The Communist MPs then departed.
Scotland's vaccine passport system will launch as planned in large venues after a judge rejected a legal challenge put forward by nightclubs seeking to delay the measure from coming into force.The global trend is clearly moving in the direction of vaccine passports or mandated vaccines, however, as we have seen over the past weeks, there is also growing pushback.
Announcing the verdict on Thursday, Lord David Burns ruled against the petitioners' statements that the system was "disproportionate, irrational or unreasonable" or an infringement on human rights.
Instead, the judge said the scheme fell under what the government could acceptably implement as a response to the pandemic and that it was "an attempt to address the legitimate issues identified in a balanced way".
"I came from nothing," he said. "But, just because I made it doesn't mean I'm bigger than you, smarter than you — just because I have more money doesn't mean I'm better than you. I've never been that way and I never will be that way. So I don't want to be in that category of people.Shaq may have some strange and wrong opinions. But society would do well to take after him in valuing the virtues of kindness, generosity, and humility more than status, money, and one's image.
"When they talk about Shaq, what do you say? 'He's a nice guy.' Because what else can you be? You're either nice or you're the A-word, and I definitely won't be looked at as the A-word," he said.
"I want people to say, 'Bro, he's nice. He didn't have an entourage. His people didn't take my phone because I took a picture and threw it.'"
Comment: Nonsensical gender-neutral language aside, there are actual issues to be concerned over: