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I spent a bit of time in Vientiane. I did monthly visa runs to NK, with a stop at Tesco. Also got cash from the Thai ATMs. Before 2009 or so, there was about a dozen ATMs in all of Lao, usually out of order. One time I went to VTE immigration for a ten-day extension: it would have been easier to do a visa run.

Him no good!

To be fair it does make a few stops, like the food court in Korat for maybe a half-hour, a fuel stop, maybe some dallying at the terminal in Udon Thani, etc. Also between UT and NK the buses will be flagged down by Immigration Officers looking for Lao people to shake down. The bus to Nong Khai will drop you off a block away from the Thai exit post. Usually. One night it dropped me off at a terminal on the other side of town.

The Dems don't have the ability to band together and fight dirty like the GOP, and everyone in US politics knows this. Enter the Lincoln Project, renegade GOPers who said "leave this to us." Never Trumpers!!! Oooooooooooooooooooooooo.................................

Crossing the frontier will probably take two hours. Might be a better idea to get off at the border, do your own paperwork, then cross into Lao and get a taxi or baht-bus. I've taken the bus from Bkk to Nong Khai a few times, takes about 12 hours as well.

Cult? Oh yes. Seems a few in here are confused as to whom is the leader of the cult. That guy with the beard looks like a homeless who they conned into putting on the uniform, the other three look like a DEI color chart.

He even tried to fiddle with the 2020 census. This seems to have been forgotten by the press,

It may not be long until there is an 'anti-' wave against the Arabs across Europe. Do these dumb Philistines think the fascists are going to like them any better? Just wait until they find pork grease on the floors of the mosques.

I wonder how much they get paid.

Bannon actually travels around and promotes nationalism and fascism, well, before he was locked up. He has met with probably every European far-right leader. I've wondered if it was sort of a board-game he was setting up, where xenophobic fascist states fight one another. Lots of stuff on the net, like this https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/1/18648732/steve-bannons-italian-monastery-political-gladiator-school-revoke

It's no secret who Putin wants in the WH And who's a happy lad?

You will invariably find that a man with long hair will have reefer in his pocket. -- quote from Lee Kwan Yew

It's dumb-as_ bigoted thing, no basis to anything real.

Biden Highlights NATO's Strength and Commitment to Ukraine in Historic Speech To find out what was wrong with the speech see Fox channel.

Why did Biden say he was a black woman? How do you know he isn't?

His fans don't listen to him, they start leaving after a few minutes. And it doesn't matter because they will vote for him regardless. Only the media listens to him and tries to interpret what he is saying.

Have you noticed no one is discussing the possibility of DT getting the bum's rush at the convention next week? The poobahs of the Republican Party may decide they don't want to make history for installing the first felon president. Now wouldn't that get him to bust a blood vessel! What would follow would be bloodsport between the contenders.

I wouldn't bet on him getting anything out of that, but hey, if he can get a trip to the US on the gov't tab . . .

The Emperor may be naked but saying that it is so makes you a hater.

They needed a translator, so they called that chap Patti.

Official notice from the Poetry Police, take heed.

Bad poetry is prohibited in this forum. There was a Brit guy in here a few centuries ago named Shake-sword or something like that; we ran his a_se out, no one ever heard from him again.

No one cares to discuss the possibility of who might replace the GOP nominee should there be strong disagreement at the convention.

IMO DT's biggest personal mistake was that after Roy Cohn died he should have given up on politics. The infamous "where's my Roy Cohn?" question, well, for someone who has spent so much time in court he should have figured out by then that not all attorneys are like that.

A few weeks after the demonstrations when LE caught up with one of the organizers/orators he cried, literally wept, saying that he didn't mean any of what he said, he was just saying those things. "Blood of patriots" indeed! Unfortunately so. Hey, this deep state that gets talked about, that now control SCOTUS, which political party does it favor? Ask the guy farthest to the right-hand side, his name is Harlan Crow.