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yes yes come on!

Oh yeah, the two lads they interviewed, and who did the demonstration. were sorry specimens.

Over the past weekend he said the documents are his. There goes the hoax (man, he loves that one!), the planted documents, and the rest of the nonsense. How securely the docs were stored means nothing. Who actually lifted and loaded the boxes is moot. Case closed. Lock him up. The only case that can be made is challenging the National Archives, which will be an expensive disaster for him. It would be high drama if someone called into question who has had access to this info, and I'd not be at all surprised if US intelligence detects info from them in dispatches by foreign adversaries. "A bowling alley and a Chinese restaurant."

You can be sure there are some slimy characters out there watching all this, doing cost/benefit analysis. With the cost reaching over $1 billion this sort of influencing does not come off as lucrative. Give him Time Magazine's Most Odious Man of the Year award. He should have everything of value he owns taken away and made a ward of the state, made to live in a public housing project* on a stipend, with strict policing on his spending, as in some areas of the US where people on public welfare have to deal with drop-in inspectors going through their closets etc. "Oh ho, what's this, a new jacket? How did you pay for it?" and so on. I don't think he has what it takes to go into exile, but I would suspect he has a honey pot somewhere. *preferably one with a high crime rate

Saw a report once (on Al Jazeera, I think) of young guys living out in the sticks in one of those provinces east of Hat Yai, they would smoke weed combined with the powder that is inside fluorescent light tubes. Jeez!

The picture of Nixon was the dead giveaway.

Still remember her as the mother from hell in Manchurian Candidate.

Did the BiB do a rape kit on the chicken, and if not then why not?

Weird pic, the guys have bigger boobs than the gals.

They did, then a few years ago this guy with orange paint on his face came along and . . .. But in a culture of hypocrisy it's just a matter of degree. Not long ago a porn actress who is a Maga fan showed up at CPAC, and a few minutes after letting her in they approached her and said she had to leave because of her profession. I'm impressed!

I find this whole thing to be an embarrassment. I can't look at pics/vids of him in the news. Who was it that inspired him to go into politics, and what do they have in mind? The guy is obviously a little slow and slightly out of it, and I truly feel sorry for him. I feel he just doesn't really get it. Another poor sob caught in the gears of the Georgia GOP.

I am still of the opinion that all this stuff associated with the Mueller Report is buried away, like Godzilla at the bottom of the sea, and at some point will re-emerge, much to the chagrin of Bill Barr and the rest of the orange cadre. Of all the legal charges piling up against the former president, this could emerge as the gasoline on the embers. Do bear in mind that the two impeachments offered no vindication, merely that his party did not punish him. The DOJ could still bring cases for those things.

It could be that there was another baksheesh fine paid, quite larger and not to be spoken of. "No need to put on a performance, we (literally) paid our dues." To a CNN reporter 5k baht is probably per diem.

My own 2 cents, sure to rankle some sat-upons: I think (adult) people should see pictures of things like this. It should be driven home just what the carnage is. The damage of not showing these things is that it becomes normalized, as is happening in the US just now. "Oh, another school shooting today? Change the channel and let's see what else is on." In an age where news, politics and other current events have become entertainment people need to be reminded of what it really is. Pictures of dead bodies etc are not there to amuse, but to be sickening. It's like taking a bitter medicine. I think when people call for war they they should not think of the heroes doing victorious poses with their flag, but rather of the piles of rotting corpses, and realizing that could be themselves and their own children. Teddy Roosevelt had a noble perspective on war, "the measure of a man" etc but after losing all his sons in WWI his perspective on this was very much humbled. I am not a pacifist nor against gun ownership (though I would prefer that my raving alcoholic wife-beating neighbor did not own one), but I think when people call for violent solutions they should be cognizant of what exactly they are supporting. With so many people cramming the media with "don't believe what you see, believe my words" these graphic images are necessary.

Is that 5k baht a "processing fee"? As always, "falang hap to gib munnee."

Looks like things are not going swimmingly for Vlad with the CSTO, Russia's post-Soviet answer to NATO. Kyrgyzstan cancels Russian-led military drill on its land My guess is the leaders of these countries look at what is happening in Ukraine and are thinking "there but for the grace of god . . . ." Even within its own ranks Russia is having a morale problem, whereas a few days ago I came across a vid of two young Ukrani women soldiers singing a song of resistance while they sat in a trench loading their ammo clips. Meanwhile, the Russian troops are hoping for a border to escape over.

Biden’s nuclear warning not based on new intelligence So Big Man Vlad is rattling the nuclear sabre, and Ol' Joe puts out the word the US defenses are going back to Cuban Missile Crisis alert. Perhaps Vlad was expecting panic in the US, and this is Joe's way of saying "we're not going to be hiding under our beds." Perhaps the looming threat this time is that a certain former president of the US (the orange one) has supplied the Russians with what was supposed to be confidential military information that will compromise the country's defenses. Putin has an "America First" plan that is quite different than the GOP one. I'm curious if DT has some sort of fallout shelter (bunker) somewhere. It's pretty obvious DT will not stand up to Vlad.

A triumph for the conservatives who always want to go back to the old days.

Looks like word is getting around, this from Thursday's L.A. Times This country wants to become the new king of weed

Yeah, one time my neighbor couldn't get his vintage Volkswagen to start. I looked under the hood, sure enough the engine was gone. Easy enough to figure out. But then another neighbor joined us, he also had an old VW and said he could help us out, he had a spare engine in his trunk. In some US cities they simply tow the car away. When you realize it's gone there is no indication if it was impounded or stolen, you then have to go through finding the right numbers to call, call the police, and more. It can take a few hours for it to show up in the system, and until it does there is no way to know what became of it. Getting it back involves paying for the towing AND STORAGE as well as the violation. Oh, and they will look into your record in search of past transgressions you have yet to pay your debt to society for. By comparison putting a boot on the car is the easy way out. In Bkk I have seen pushcart boots made for the bicycle tires carts usually have. I like the sign, nice touch. But it should include the name of the person the car is registered to, amps up the shame.

Imported from where? Legally?

Will be very interesting when his protectors (Secret Service) become his captors. He'll be screaming about a police state. When he does stuff like this he comes off like the psycho-killer in the first Dirty Harry movie.

And just think: if Senator Biden had gone tougher on Judge Clarence back at his appointment hearings . . . (Cut to an image of Anita Hill nodding her head saying "uh-huh")

My question, which I have never seen anyone (in the media or on this forum) address: why have they not searched his other properties, particularly the ones on foreign soil? Surely Scotland Yard would be willing to help in Turnberry in the possible betrayal of NATO.

Stop saying stuff like this, you're jinxing it.