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I got the sense that I had checked into the wrong kind of hotel in Asoke when the mini bar featured condoms and KY. Live and learn. Checked out the next morning. The room turned out to be smaller than the Orbitz ad. Tiny, in fact.

Not much different than 150x as likely to get prison time for assaulting a cop on Jan6 than during the summer of love and peaceful town burnings. Just another data point. I'm not going to go through the numbers again (boring), but this tells a pretty good story: BLM: Over 16,000 arrests and only 70 of them got prison time. That's one per 29 injured cops. Jan6: Thats 7 per each injured cop.

You probably listen to some Thomas Sowell, and not so many of the race baiters. They can argue all they want about why they have more arrests, less stable households and crappier employment histories, but facts is facts.

I don't guess that has anything to do with the FBI stats that tell us that white folks are less likely to have a string of felonies on their records.

Why would anyone take the effort and spend the money to go to an exhibition of what you can find 100x as much of on the interwebs? Unless, of course, it's a vanity project...

I don't guess you realize that tariffs actually drive manufacturing into a country? That creates domestic jobs. Fear of tariffs forces companies to hire domestically because they can't ramp up production on a dime. They need the workers in place before the tariffs kick in. I'd sure hate to be the last company that snaps to that fact and have to settle for the dregs of the employment pool.

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I think it's appropriate to point out that the C-130 is a Lockheed product. Not a Boeing.

Bondi needs to file federal charges in cases like that.

You don't figure that's because of Boeings "falling out of the sky" problem, that long predated Trump tariffs?

Big whoop. Next week, it'll be overruled on appeal.

In a return to sanity...

Interesting... Jobs keep coming, and they haven't had to come back and revise the last few months downwards like they did during the election. Did they mention that one place jobs were declining is the federal gub'ment?

Then I'd put it down to beer goggles. Still no cause for alarm.

Shouldn't it be the other way around? The guy was just doing what guys do. He's fine.

It may have to do with the holidays. This is from the visaforchina website. You may be SOL until the 6th of May. If you're in Bangkok, I'd suggest going by their office when they open, near Makkasan, and ask at their reception desk. I stopped by a few weeks ago and they were very helpful in person. I was trying to upgrade my visa (technically, to cancel the existing one and get a new one). I couldn't wait their claimed 3 working day expedited turnaround (for extra money), but they were helpful nonetheless. 5th Floor, Thanapoom tower. There's no sign on the building that I saw. Post back when you do figure it out.

So does Zelensky get to keep Crimea and Donbass? I don't think so. Edit: More accurately, will he be getting them back? Because you can't "keep" something you don't have.

I'm sure they said similar about the CEOs of TWA, Pan Am, Eastern and a bunch of other defunct airlines. They were all cracker jack businessmen. Then they screwed up. Like O'Leary's doing.

Trump didn't get a setback. The people in that district of Texas did. Except, of course, the TdA members. They're pleased.

I'm pretty sure that someone else in that 6,236+ backlog queue will be pleased that they may be moving up the list. I'll bet Ryanair will be begging for their place back in the queue, since Airbus has a 28 year backlog, based on their January 2025 deliveries and backlog. The tariff kerfuffle will soon be in the rearview mirror, and Ryanair will be waiting another decade or two to get their planes.

I worked with a couple of them offshore in Thailand. Their answer to your question would be "yes". But that was 5 or 6 years back. And I'd propose that the reason to put them in front of the line is that they're generally educated, they speak English and they will hit the ground running instead of slurping up gub'ment benefits.

I'll betcha there's still a huge import duty on Euro cars. I wonder what the F in FTA really stands for? I'd guess, but I think that word is censored here.

Fact checked? You mean by the same knobs that had to be shamed into admitting that Biden did, in fact, have his hardhat on backwards? I trust the White House more than I trust the fact checkers. But that's not a very high bar.

Puts a whole 'nother spin on "Google it", eh?

Not mine. They got run off their turnip patches in Belarus and Ukraine (though they weren't denoted that way on the maps of the day). They came to the USA quite legally around 1900. Today, the family has nobody on the dole, several multi-millionaires, 100% college educated, and doing quite well, thank you very much. (Edit: I'd add that they didn't get a dime, a free room, free healthcare, or anything else from the gub'ment when they arrived) Regarding skilled workers from other countries, there are legal immigration paths for them. Trump's never been anti-immigration. They just need to be vetted and selected such that they contribute to the USA more than they cost.