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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.

Garland did not get a SC hearing, the Lord of the Senate would not allow it. And it had nothing to do with Garland's standing or history. "Ten months is too close to an election." Four years later the same guy has a new justice in there within weeks prior to an election, and her predecessor was not even buried yet. There is no 50-50 at the moment, the GOP has two well-compensated ringers across the aisle giving them an edge. KBJ is quite the lady, sitting there with her hands clasped and keeping a pleasant facial expression while having to hear all this [deleted]. The slightest adverse reaction will be followed by cries of "black rage!" But it seems to be ok to lie during these SC hearings, the last three appointees did so (in obvious fashion) and were approved.

Huh?

I began to appreciate masks during the SARS business twenty years ago. People who never heard of the concept of covering the mouth and nose when they cough or sneeze wearing masks? I'm all for it! Biggest inconvenience of it is it makes it difficult for them to pick their noses in public.

It would be a good idea to not tear the place down as it could be brought back into play, like Don Muang. I think the thing that will be most appreciated by Bkk folk when the station goes out of operation is that there will no longer be the RR crossing at Phetchaburi. If you've been around there during the evening commute hours you'll know what I mean. When I was staying in the Bobae area I could walk from the Wireless Rd area and get there faster than the bus I would have taken. One time at that crossing I saw an impressive train, painted dark green and of nearly pristine appearance. I looked it up and it was a high-falutin' thing done up in 19th century grandeur, it had a name like 'Orient Express' and ran Bkk to Singapore. And it cost a ridiculous amount of money. If I was around Hua Lamphong I would take the train one stop to get to Bobae, cost 2b. The price of the ticket was part of the novelty.

Maybe because they come in pairs?

Did Hua Lamphong shut down? Maybe this is sort of a requiem for the old station. When I first came out here in the 1970s used to stay around there, loved the area.

One of the positives of turning 50 is that you no longer need to fear dying young. I liked Bill in Body Heat, which was somewhat of a rehash of Double Indemnity. He outdid Fred MacMurray's character as the fool, IMO. The MMatlin thing really disgusted me, I guess he liked the novelty of beating a girlfriend and not having to hear her scream -- pretty low.

More of this goes on than you might think, the goal is to get noticed in the press and it's usually done shortly before the release of movie or television show that the alleged victim stars in. Recall the "beer summit" Obama called? That was 2 weeks before the alleged victim was premiering a tv series, and notice that the press suddenly went quiet on that one, with no conclusion. Oprah did a similar thing with a shopgirl in Switzerland a few years back, that was a week before a movie she made was coming out. This guy trying to turn it into a criminal case was obviously a step too far. Notice that there was no "community uproar," not a peep from BLM et al. The only celebrity I heard mention this case was Dave Chappelle, who said the way the community was supporting him was by not saying anything because everyone could see it was bs. But some celebs did go public in the past week to get his sentence eased. Absolutely. "Crying 'wolf.'" And then there is the person(s) being defamed by the false charges: definitely does not engender good community relations. Notice that even the liberal media in the US knows when to back off on these things.

Sneaking up on Vlad and bumping him off? Lotsa Luck.

Vlad has stated that he wants to reunite the lands that comprised the USSR. I get the impression these countries are looking at Ukraine and wondering if they will be next. I haven't heard this mentioned anywhere, but could it be possible there will be an attempt at unity of against Putin? Kazakhstan has already turned down requests for support troops. From the descriptions of Putin's military it sounds like they have been under-financed -- yeah, lots of tanks, artillery, shells etc but quality of the troops sure ain't no kind of spetsnaz. Almost as if Milo Minderbinder is running the armed forces.

Thanks for straightening that out.

Old show biz rule: never do a movie with a kid or a dog. My guess is W.C. Fields first came up with that one.

The actor who played the tank commander was pretty impressive, I'd only seen him playing buddy roles before.

Oops! From the OP I got impression it was junior here responsible for the startup.