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Gotta love that one.

Some rather interesting reading here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thais_by_net_worth Sister is not on there.

Thai Man Finds Giant Python in Toilet, Sparking Online Frenzy When I saw this I thought it would be a report about a public mens' room encounter in Silom.

This may be one of those situations where a dog is judged by its owner. It's new competition ground for the billionaires, it used to be space travel. The Arabs have historically raced horses, and we know who their horse is the US politics race. DT's madness is our saving grace (at the moment) -- if Flynn was in charge the US would be in martial law by now. JD will do as he is told by his benefactor.

Recall the 2018 midterms when a lot of the DT-alikes did poorly. The MAGA congregation loves their orange messiah, and isn't looking for a replacement. But still the comers think that projecting a mean and misanthropic demeanor will propel them to being the next DT -- e.g. Noem who figured telling about killing her dog in detail, emphasizing that the dog was smiling as she was aiming at it, as if that meant the dumb animal deserved it. And don't forget the guy from Florida in the Wellies and the rest of them. And then there is the nepo baby factor. Elvis Presley's daughter launched a singing career in the 1980s, she was expecting the reaction to be "oh wow! Elvis's daughter!!" but instead got "oh, and what do you have to say?" Something I think even the Dems have figured out at this point is that if there is a presidential election in 2028 the only way they can win is with a white male candidate.

I was there for a few weeks in 2010. Yes, these things are reported in the newspapers. Articles will include apologies for lacking details because they are too foul to print (can't recall the exact use of words). The women being raped while the men are forced to watch seemed ok to print. In one case there was an Asian mob guy and his goons, pulled into a township in his gold Mercedes to collect his baksheesh. It didn't go well. Again apologies for not being able to print, but they did manage to leave me with the impression the locals turned them into a pile of mince with their swords. I don't follow SA news much, but I do believe a Big Bang is due, and it will be tribe vs tribe. In recent times there have been violent cleanups (sometimes vigilante) of people from other African countries, especially Nigerians. As for the whites, you can guess what will become of them.

I guess MS was expecting a more enthusiastic response from users eager to ditch their old hardware. My Win 10 Home installation seems a bit slower, and the updates are clumsier and more erratic. It's like they are trying annoy users into making the change. About a year ago MS made a mess of the Win 10 upgrades, with them sending out faulty updates that were not remedied by the following month's updates. Got a system message that some of my Win components were missing: I spent an hour or two chasing down possible remedies then gave up and didn't update until a few days ago. Much to my surprise it was pretty straight forward with no error messages. When I tried a web search an AI chat produced this, take it as you will: As of March 2025, it is estimated that around 1.4 billion PCs are running Windows, with more than 70% of those using Windows 10. However, many of these computers will no longer receive security updates after October 14, 2025. Looks like Linux will emerge as the plebian OS. I still think there should be a move backwards to the XP model, where the OS takes less than 1 gig of disk space.

And don't forget leakers. Scuttlebutt is he spends most of his time trying to sniff them out, the dirty, rotten rats. If he was paying attention to the non-Fox media during the first term he would know it is the boss himself doing most of it. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

DT seems to have dropped the Greenland diversion. I think that after DJr made that visit he reported to dad that the place isn't green at all, it's all lie.

First off, the idea of DJr was voiced a few times during the 2020 campaign, so it's not really a novel idea. He has to be careful because his dad still has hopes of arranging a forever presidency for himself. It looks like a new trend: presidential candidates with official sponsors, like Gran Prix racers or race horse owners. JD has Thiel, DJr has this guy, dad has EM (anyone else notice the pump & dump in active play in the US market?). Sock puppet politics. It's the current evolution of Citizens United. Calling it the WH is now more appropriate, with "W" now standing for that term for a person who sells personal physical favors.

Whatever you say, Ace.

I was bouncing around SEA playing visa bingo in the wake of the 2008 crash. In Thailand quite notable was that the portions got smaller, e.g. those 5 baht packets of cooked rice. Commodity items like rice, sugar and Arabica coffee were just about same price in all countries. Crafty Malaysians were filling boats with sacks of gov't subsidized sugar to smuggle into LOS for a profit of app. US$0.05 per kilo.

And always with the query "what's in it for me?"

The question is "if this guy isn't running the country, then who is?" I first heard about this concern during the Reagan years, and any mention of this got you "hey. leave the old man alone!" GHWB was definitely not very involved ("potato chips or computer chips, what do I care?"), W Bush was busy landscaping his ranch and working on his golf swing: his veep was also his Iago, and the boy just didn't have what it took to counter him. It was the Cheney-Rove-Gingrich admin. Kudos to Biden for breaking into an exclusively GOP practice. You MAGA guys better play it cool, your boy is on threshold of becoming Rain Man.

It was the weight of that damned watch that threw him off balance.

Is this an attempt at blackface? Commemorating Al Jolson's birthday?

Yeah, and while you're at it do something to stop the flow of guys named Ryan coming to Hollywood and taking all the acting jobs. A lot of Canadians in US talk media and television, too, illegal aliens all who no doubt carried drugs across the border, the kind of drugs that will make Americans stupid, and . . . . nevermind. This Patel guy is just making noise to keep the boss happy, make it look like he's actually working. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/kash-patels-new-way-leading-fbi-fewer-morning-intel-briefings-sports-e-rcna202865

So if ol' Joe was on the ball he would have been stepping on Merrick Garland's tail to get off his ass and take care of the Jan 6 mess and maybe we wouldn't have this blackguard in the WH again. And no new martyr: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-pay-5-million-settle-lawsuit-ashli/story?id=121959389 Sometimes I suspect the GOP runs the Dems.

Hard work is good work, she said this in her stump speech. Never made sense. Now "Good work is hard work" sounds more like it. Maybe there is a bit of a disconnect somewhere. Academia for her now: those that can't do teach

When I was staying hostels in the 1970s there would always be these guys sitting around in Speedo kind of things. They were usually German. My question was something like yours.

Waiting for his attempts to re-educate the world in math. E.g. "5 is less than 2, 10 is less than 3..." and so on. Possibly a new such lesson every day to steer whatever numbers he decides at that moment. I have no doubts that he will try such things, the test will be if that 35% of the population that deifies his yammering. "Prices are up but it is making America great again." Oh, ok.

Syria has been pretty cozy with Russia in the past, I suspect DT cleared this visit with the guy in The Kremlin beforehand. One of my favorite stories regarding alliances in the region is from 10 years ago or so, back when Raqqa was the official gateway to Hell. To aid Syria Iran agreed to allow Russian airstrikes to pass through their airspace en route to Syria. Day 1 saw a successful attack. Day 2 Russia attacked a strategic military site in Iran by mistake. Oops! Didn't hear any more about this agreement after that.

She's afraid of getting zapped by a Jewish space laser while she's trying on butt plugs at her neighborhood Target store. It was a few weeks ago that I saw on the US teevee news the polling results for prospective GOP candidates for the Georgia Senate, no sneaky leaking involved. Marjie came in last, around 10%. A lot her constituents are just like her, so she can hold on to her rep seat probably for the rest of her life, so long as she doesn't get caught leaving a motel with a black man. Kemp knows if he runs the person with the orange face will tear him to shreds. https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/01/bookman-mtgs-act-might-play-in-her-district-a-statewide-race-is-a-fools-mission/

Hey, is this the same Fred Merz from "I Love Lucy"? "Freeeeeddddddd, you got some explaining to do . . . "