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Looks like not everyone is hooked up to the pipeline that goes to the treatment plant. There is a lot of military in that area, is there a Thai version of Army Corps of Engineers?

Occasionally I'll get a pain and realize it is in the same spot that I had something happen many years ago, like a sprained ankle or a hernia operation. My mind may have forgotten but the body remembers. The pain went away 40 years ago, now it sometimes drops in for a visit. I thought my feet were getting bigger as my shoes are tighter. Dr told me the feet flatten out in later years, try wearing insole supports. I truly don't want to wear old man shoes.

In the previous decade it was revealed that a certain US presidential candidate had an IRA (or was it a 401k?) with millions in it. This bit of news raised a few eyebrows, a newscaster or 2 remarked "how is this possible?" but it appeared no one took it any further. I think the cap on annual contributions was still around $15k/year at the time, so even with employer matching contributions... According to this the initial max contribution was $1,500 in 1974. It's not for any of us peons to see, these people do what their sponsors tell them to do. That is one true non-partisan practice. Their hard work is providing excuses for why they voted the way they do, my favorite at the moment is the senator from West Virginia who says "I just can't do that to my grandchildren." That is a great, all-weather bs excuse that can be used for anything. And use it he does! Thank god the US is not run by oligarchs. </sarcasm>

Rumor had it that the guy running that duty-free chain had a personal connection to a certain exiled PM. I remember once the press picked up on a certain case and they released a security video of the crime that was inconclusive at best. I guess a lot of us who have time to kill before boarding a flight might browse in these places, this kind of nonsense put an end to that.

Your nagging gf made you post that?

We have caught the perpetrators, and they are us.

Some years back had a gf who had been sharing apartments for years. Said her goal in life was to have a bed where "all the stains on the mattress are my own."

So when you fly with them can you bring your own seat and get a discount?

They prescribed metformin for me at first and I had a terrible reaction, took a week to get over it. Now I'm on glipizide, seems to be holding me together. Every other diabetic I know is on metformin. At 70 I'm not too concerned with causing birth defects . . .

I've witnessed too many middle-aged women pursue the Fountain of Youth by behaving like a spoiled 14 year-old. Their lives are just one hissy fit after next. IMO it's a pretty sorry sight.

There is a movie called Ronin with Robert DeNiro and Jean Reno (it has nothing to do with Japan). Actually a good action movie about for-hire tough guys shooting up France. About 20 years ago, it seemed like every expat hangout in LOS had this movie playing constantly. I think the scene most enjoyed is where the Sean Bean character gets his comeuppance. It addresses the situation of your post.

I once heard Keith Olbermann (remember him?) refer to "Bill Hemmer, who gave up a career in journalism to work at Fox News." Olbermann at one time dated Laura Ingraham, but no likes to talk about this.

With the rumors regarding "adult" activities (or lack of) in the Smith household, and toxic masculinity being one of the themes of the evening, maybe Smith was trying to give the impression he was a real man. When they got home that night: Jada: I'm so proud of you baby, tonight I'll give you anything you want, just ask! Will: How about Tom Cruise's phone number?

C'mon now, how many people enjoyed seeing Chris Rock getting a bust in the chops? I don't know the world Smith came out of, but Rock is from Bedford-Stuyvestant (Brooklyn NY); it may be gentrified now, but before 2000 it was a notoriously rough place (just ask Jay Z), so Rock knows how to take a punch. In a place like Bed-Stuy when a brudda has a problem with another brudda they don't take it to "the man." In a case when both are very wealthy it could definitely vary. The media coverage of this would have been completely different if the two were not the same color. I'd say this is the start of a new trend: people coming out of the audience and giving it to comedians, particularly the ones famous for insults. And it will become a regular thing on social media. Kathy Griffin, Ricky G and Bill Maher should stop live performances until the trend passes. Joan Rivers* and Don Rickles died just in time. Set your stopwatches for when Kim K's ex assaults a comedian for commenting on his idiocy, I'd bet he's planning it right now. I saw a Rickles performance where Ronald Reagan and Nancy were in the audience and Rickles ribbed the hell out of Ronnie for being old, incoherent, doddering etc and the two laughed all the way through -- all three knew it's just show biz. (it's probably on youtube) (* if the late Joan Rivers got hit in the face like that she would have needed to be re-molded)

Sorry folks, bongs and joints are going the way of horse-drawn carriages and landline telephones: these days it's vaporizers. The vapes don't smell as much, and the smells nothing like when it burns. I don't do edibles, no comment there. But being an old relic, I still appreciate a bong hit. Supposedly it was invented in SEA, and maybe these guys can parlay that into a marketing ploy. A few years back I saw a vid of an interview with some country boys in the deep south of LOS who were smoking it mixed with the powder from inside fluorescent lighting tubes. They looked as bad as American meth heads, but came off as pretty mellow.

Certain states are notorious for their DMV employees. Just think of one depriving someone of a driver's license because "when I look in the rear-view mirror I don't want to see your ugly face." For me the memorable thing about this incident was all of the GOP presidential hopefuls who went down there and were literally fighting (verbally) with each other to crowd her spotlight. I recall Huckabee and Cruz, there may have been others. "under God's authority" That's the scary stuff, who knows what god is going to tell her next.

Something that hasn't come up in this thread is that for the GOP senators in the questioning lineup this was about the 2024 presidential campaign. Sort of a pre-pagent preview. The moderator (Durbin) even at one point told KBJ, during some questioning (by Cruz?) "you don't have to answer, he's only going to interrupt you." Lacking the solid evidence they needed, like a pic of her eating a baby in the basement of a pizza place, all that stuff about human trafficking and kiddie porn was on-message to appeal to the believers in the stuff of the group between the letters P and R -- with them all that stuff goes with the Big Lie like peas and carrots. Marsha Blackburn declaring that she cares about children, as if that makes her a saint or something. Manchin said the same thing about no supporting the infrastructure bill, he just couldn't do that to his grandchildren. The fringe is now the GOP base. Such caring souls... Not the time yet for a discussion of the hopefuls, but consider this a prelim peek. I'm surprised Rick Scott wasn't in there, he's the type who would sink to any degrading act to become pres. To be fair, I'll mention that for the Dems it was the Bret I Like Beer hearings, and sure enough three of them showed up in the 2020 primaries. I wrote all three off for doing a lousy job with Bret: again, that's a different discussion.

Once ran into a tourist fellow who said he was walking around one night and got bashed up by a bunch of katoeys. Said he needed emergency dental work and was robbed of US$3,000 worth of jewelry. Walking around a foreign city at night wearing all that? Sounds like a travel insurance scam.

On another SCOTUS angle, I suspect that a certain conservative justice may be off the bench soon, the one who may face the possibility of being the first to be forcibly removed due to his wife being a 1/6 celebrity. I question the verity of his current health scare, it may be the start of a ruse to leave before being ejected in disgrace. I would also think he'd try to run out the clock till the midterms in the hope that the GOP takes back the Senate, so he can be replaced with one of his own. But this health scare could be real, and Mother Nature may take him to his final rest before then . . .

I didn't realize the all-engrossing problem the US is dealing with these days is child pornography, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the GOP for not only pointing this out, but for figuring out the solution to the problem is blocking this woman's nomination. [NOTE: irony alert] Impressive that they didn't ask her if she had ever been on welfare, that's the usual GOP cudgel they save for Black women.

The military has it's own bank and television network. Consider the possibilities.

Why do they need a new leader? What about Jatuporn as PM? What happened to those three fools PT leaders who did so well negotiating with Abhisit? Only one simple instruction: call The Boss and ask him what to do next. How's her daddy's health these days, BTW?

He was so drugged he didn't realize the penis in his hand was not his own.

The former president in question did say that he expected allegiance from judicial appointees (and not exclusively the ones on SCOTUS) should a decision regarding himself come their way, y'know, like a stolen election. If he is reinstalled in the WH is it possible he will seek to remove those treacherous ingrates? Never before has a POTUS provided such an amount of entertainment value.

During the 1980 presidential campaign Saint Ronald of Reagan said he would put a woman on SCOTUS should an opening arise, and it would be a first. And he did. I don't recall such an argument being raised at the time.