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Come to think of it, it was not mentioned. Probably because Biden didn't mention that in his speeches where he said (paraphrasing, with credit to The Temptations) "Vote for me and I'll set you free". Yet another Biden campaign fib, by omission.

Did that synopsis come from the same people who have been telling us for almost 4 years that the border is secure?

It would be interesting to see what happened to beer and Hong Thong sales while weed was legalized. Maybe that's what he meant by "bad results"?

You mean the bill that codified and normalized 5,000 illegals entering per day before it even allowed CBP to call a halt? Assuming, of course, that they were allowed to. Which history proves, Biden won't let them enforce existing law. Did you even read the 370 page bill?

That's probably the only accurate statement in your post. But I think the correlation is the amount left on your student loan. Watched some YouTubes last week when I was in Thailand, interviewing "young adults" about what they thought of Biden. The most oft repeated complaint was that he hasn't cancelled their student loan yet.

I can't believe anyone went swimming in that water after dark, when any crafty resort owner would secretly dump their raw sewage hoping it would float away or be dissipated before anyone sees it the next morning. Besides, it's hard to dodge the turd you can't see.

I'm more inclined to hope that the corruption remains relatively benign toward foreigners. For every corrupt official that's rooted out, there's probably 3 or 4 wannabes lurking in the wings that may be less friendly toward us, and casting greedier eyes at what we collectively own and earn.

Just a small subset of them. But the most vocal subset, by far.

Context is important. Gotta have something to compare it to. Edit: Also doesn't hurt the forum to discuss shared experiences that make us more alike than a lot of posters would think, based on the catfights we see so often.

I don't know if it will help the OP, but if I needed anything in the audio genre in Bangkok, I'd start at the Ban Mo electronics market near the Sam Yot MRT. Walk out the east side of Old Siam Plaza, cross the street at the red painted, signal controlled crosswalk, walk 50 yards down the market alley, then hook a left into the bowels of the multi-floor market for all things electronic. I can spend hours just scrounging in the hundreds (thousands?) of electronic and maker kiosks. In fact, I did last week. I was afraid Covid may have decimated the place, but it's still great. Found exactly what I was looking for by brand and model (though it wasn't a remote control). Bring your old one...

I went to high school in Illinois where White Castle was all over. Not so much in Texas where I went to college and lived for the most part. And between Ruby's, Carl's Jr and In 'n Out, I never even looked for them in SoCal. Ruby's, BTW, mostly for the scenery on Huntington Beach pier. Their burgers were good, but not world class. The location was.

When I lived in SoCal in the 90's, I thought it was a toss up between Carl's Jr and In 'n Out. But Carl's Jr. may have changed in the hookup with Hardee's. And I haven't been to any In 'n Out's in 20 years, though they are in Texas now. Too far from the butt end of Galveston where I live.

I miss sliders. In high school, we'd go in and buy 30 of them for a carload of us. Then order more...

I love a great burger, but I'm not willing to go clean across town to get one. Next time I'm on Sukhumvit, I'll gladly try it out. When I'm staying in Chinatown, I like Burger236 very close to the Hua Lamphong station and MRT. It's not the best burger in Bangkok, but very satisfactory in addition to being inexpensive. Worth a try if you're in Chinatown. Tiny place with just a few seats so I usually got one to go with 2 orders of fries because one just wasn't enough. On a related note, I miss the Carl's Jr that used to be there (Nana), Soi 22, and Silom. Good fast food burgers and the only place that I recall having bottomless brewed ice tea, which is one of my weaknesses when it's hot outside. Also good fries.

Can't speak for the causes of this incident, but we always kept a bottle of Johnson's Baby Oil in the car when the Ixtoc platform oil washed up on the beach in Texas. We had blobs of oil for years and years after that. Generic name is mineral oil, but the Johnson brand smelled nice in addition to cleaning up oil off our feet, clothes and the car's carpeting.

A lot of Thai restaurants asked me for payment up front. But they forego all the profit from upselling high margin desserts and coffees, which keeps a lot of restaurants in business. I'm more likely to buy dessert and coffees on an open tab. On a closed tab, I'm more likely to go down the street for ice cream or coffee.

Maybe. But at what cost to world order, when embassies and consulates become fair game targets? If they were launching missiles from the consulate, fair enough. But not if it was just retaliatory, or to target individuals.

The lights may go on if they keep pumping him full of industrial grade NoDoz. But still, nobody will be home. If I ever showed up at a company meeting like he showed up at the SOTU, I'd have been "randomly" drug tested the next day.

While I won't claim that most lefties are idiots, the vast majority of idiots I've encountered have been lefties.

I fly in, stay a week and fly out. My one land entry was pre-Covid, and it was visa exempt. If I were to suggest a lesson from that, it's that the number of fly-in entries isn't the limit that's going to cause a problem. But that's just my experience.

I recently posted this about my experience, but that's all it is. My experience: Last week, I entered Thailand visa exempt for the 12th time in the past 12 months, and it was all smiles and less than a minute. I fly in, stay a week and fly out. It resets the 30 day clock on my China visa. My buttcheeks always pucker up a little on both ends of the visa run, so I'm interested in what folks have done (if anything) to merit the extra scrutiny. BTW, US citizen, 67 yo, worked in Thailand on BOI WP for 7 years and haven't had a Thai visa since. Just exempt entries by air. (One by land when I pursued a wild hair to take the train from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok- never again) Most of the time, my airlines ask to see an onward ticket and I show them a flight booking within 10 days. A few (maybe 3) times, they've asked me to show cash (20,000 baht equivalent) before issuing the boarding pass. I've not been asked to show a hotel booking, though I always have one just in case. Details like whether a sea or land booking is acceptable, I don't know. I also don't know what would happen if I stayed longer, or accumulated more time in Thailand on each trip or in total. Or if I had a different nationality.

Being dissed by the usual suspects on here is a badge of honor. Caitlyn Jenner has done more IMO than any other American to win acceptance for the transgender community.

You need to get yourself a copy of the BBC Big Band Album. I downloaded it on a lark and didn't listen for over a year. When I finally did, I was floored. I'm probably the only guy on the MRT humming along to the oldies. Timeless music from 25 years before I was born.

I'm the opposite of a Biden fan, but what's not to like? A trip to Bangkok like that would make the guy a hero. You know it's a deep fake because he doesn't drink. Edit: BTW, thanks George for embedding the video instead of just a link. YouTube and others are blocked where I'm staying and I appreciate the effort.

So you see how easy it would have been to avoid the controversy altogether? But his lefty staff just couldn't resist pushing their agenda. Probably at great cost to his campaign. Certainly it couldn't have benefited. Not to mention reminding voters that Team Dem is the one behind biological males in women's sports and women's bathrooms, laws that take away a parent's rights in regards to their children's healthcare, drag queen story hour in elementary school, porn in school libraries, and and a plethora of other rules to benefit the 1% that identify as trans. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/