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Going back to Rummy in 2001, the day before 9/11 announcing that $4 trillion was unaccounted for, that's over 20 years of not being able to handle money. (And it didn't start or end with Rumsfeld) It's time to do something different, and I'm willing to give Hegseth a chance. He doesn't need to be an audit and money guru. He needs to know who he can trust to be the guru who's going to hire a team of competent people. And I doubt that guru is even going to come with a military background. Finance isn't what they teach...

Since when are hush money payments illegal? There was a myriad of testimony (the best was the National Enquirer guy) about the prevalence of payments to make stories go away.

If all that is true, doesn't that indicate we need different people in there?

You mean when one of his corporate flunkies recorded a payment to his attorney as a legal expense?

You must not have even read the Hur or the House reports. There's plenty in there. But up until January 21, they would have needed the votes to impeach him in order to prosecute a sitting president. And the Dems wouldn't have voted for impeachment even with videos of Biden walking across the White House lawn with a severed head in one hand and a bloody machete in the other.

Just to be clear, where exactly is the re-entry visa counter nowadays? Pre-Covid, I recall it was after you went through departure immigration, just before you hit the big Naga sculpture and the duty free shops. After Covid it was off to the left in the same room as departure immigration. Lately, I don't recall where it is since they rearranged the departure immigration hall to implement the automatic face scanning thingies. (And do you visit the re-entry counter before or after you've been stamped out?)

No. I'm not the confused one here.

Is it really theft if you find some stuff someone else has voluntarily abandoned? We used to refer to that as "finders keepers" when I was a kid.

Walking? Doubt it.

That looks like a lot of weed for personal consumption.

Thank goodness enough voters saw through that ruse.

I'm wondering what piece of legislation was just passed to allow Trump to get control of the border? Wasn't that Biden's mantra? On an aside, I wonder if Trump will let 5000 in every day before he takes any action? Which would have been the case had "the strongest bi-partisan immigration legislation in history" been passed.

And JD Vance was the tie breaking vote.

They should just call it what it is. Free public transport for the Lunar New Year Holiday. Which I applaud. Happiness for the little people and all that. Flying into Thailand from the north, it's pretty apparent that the big problem isn't cars, trucks and buses in Bangkok. I won't be in Bangkok during that period, and I'm glad I won't be needing the BTS or MRT. It'll be an absolute zoo with free passage.

You'd have to pay 260 baht to know for sure.

Has there been a change in the E-Packet treaty with Thailand? I used AliExpress all the time from the USA, and was quite satisfied. I found that I could buy and ship a lot of the goodies for less than the cost of postage alone within the USA. I suspect that may end soon...

That should be well received by the carbon neutral (at any cost) crowd.

Sure. Risk starting a nuclear war for being 45 miles away from the UK. Not violating anything, given they weren't mining, drilling or fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone.

Stop worrying and extend your trip so you can see the sights in Thailand. You'll get 60 days on a visa exempt entry then you can easily extend that. If you stay in hospital accommodations for the whole trip, you'll miss out on so much... The bigger question I'd be asking in your situation is whether anyone has experience getting the cosmetic surgery you're planning, in the facility you're booking into. They all have really nice websites... But that's a different sub-forum.

You're gonna hate the next 12 years.

I'm seeing them turn against Trudeau, not the USA.

Of the 10,047 total inmates in women’s federal facilities, 1,538 are biological males, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). That's 15%. Wow. Data from From the Bureau of Prisons... Jaw-Dropping Number Of Inmates In Women’s Prisons Are Actually Men | The Daily Caller BOP Statistics: Inmate Gender

That suggests one employee they should show to the door.

Joe thought he'd stop the investigations with those pardons. Instead, he just piqued the curiosity of even more Americans. On his way to going into the history books as the most corrupt, worst president ever when it all comes out. Most of it is already out in the Hur Report and the House Report on the Biden Crime Family. With the receipts in both reports.

About the only bit of compassion I can scrape up is for the people that Harris/Biden convinced to waste $10,000 of their money to pay the cartels to enter the US illegally. To most of them, that's a lot of money. The Dems should offer those people a refund. Maybe from their campaign funds.