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That's the sound of money being made. Sweaty tourist cash. It's like moving to Pamplona, then complaining about that thing with the bulls.

Awkward? Biden voted for Trump I'd be more worried about Pelosi, Harris, Biden and Jill being at the same funeral. They may need more coffins. Carter was an honorable man, but not a great president. He more than redeemed himself after his term. But they did him dirty pushing him out to support Harris in that condition. He deserved better.

I don't disagree, but what's the reality in Thailand? I don't ever recall having anything cultured to do a sinus diagnosis. It always seems to be an eenie-meenie-minie-moe selection of an antibiotic. Or is there more science involved?

Makes sense. I'd have bought 2nd hand if that had worked out logistically. You're right. It's a toy for me, too.

Which antibiotic?

Is the Mini still available? Here in China, they're discontinued and all I could find was a Mini 4 Pro, Mini 3, Mini 4K and Mini 2SE. I bought the Mini 3 and it's way beyond my needs and skill level. Loving it so far, but I just had it out a couple of times. Kinda scary how far away it'll fly. I hope this link works in Thailand (I can't get to their Thai focused website,,, I'm in China and keep getting diverted to the .cn site.) https://www.dji.com/cn/products/camera-drones#mini-series

A 45 day stay should have the same or a lower daily rate than a 30 day stay. If it isn't, that's cheaping out on the software.

Are there any reports from people using an agent to attempt the same border bounce?

That's good info, because kayaking would be my main draw to Koh Chang, And now that I no longer own a kayak (or a pickup to haul it) in Thailand, I'd be looking for someone to hook me up with competent equipment. Edit: I'd add that I avoid the public kamikaze vans like the plague, but I've had great drivers when they were recommended by people I trust.

The ignominiously named "Brown Mixture" (Leopard Brand) traditional Thai cough medicine works great for me. I bought some on my arrival Tuesday and the cough was 90% gone within the day. YMMV.

To that, I would add that getting a traffic camera ticket in the mail just doesn't have the same impact as being pulled over on the spot. Especially now, with the recent judge's ruling that they can't hold up a registration renewal for unpaid tickets. I got really well practiced at avoiding the cops and $$$ tickets when I first started driving and I couldn't afford the fines. Not coincidentally, those same skills helped me avoid accidents. I was a lot more afraid of the cops than of dying in a flaming wreck, just as a matter of percentages and being young and bulletproof.

Richard Smith will love getting into this, stand by for a massive rant... I'm just saying, you can reduce your odds of dying (per km) by over 95% with a ton of steel and seat belts.

With over 85% of the crashes being scooters and only 2.67% being sedans, any discussion of car safety seems rather moot.

Ms. Willis was elected. A DEI hire, nonetheless.

That should make it easy to find him.

I think the OP is confused. It's only insurrection when the bad guys do it. Like when the good guys offer up a slate of alternative electors, it's fine. But when the bad guys offer up a slate of alternative fake electors, they get prosecuted. The next few weeks are going to get good.

I flew in on Monday and encountered the worst queue I've had in my 20 recent monthly visits. It was still only 25 minutes, and I beat my bag to the luggage carousel. I remember when I used to cross my fingers it would be less than an hour in the immigration queue. Post Covid, I've been averaging 5 minutes. On my way out early on Friday morning, there was no queue at departure immigration, or airport security. They're doing a lot of things right as far as I'm concerned.

What they also miss is that there's only one quarterback in a city of millions where there are thousands of high paid engineers. And even more thousands of former wannabe QB's with crushed dreams and huge beer bellies. The Al Bundy demographic.

And along with the debilitating symptoms (which I described above) comes the question "what processes and systems did they affect that's causing the symptoms", and the fear about whether that's going to progress and become worse over time. How many years of healthy life have I lost?

That was just one round. (But certainly not round 1). They'll look at what worked and what didn't and be back. After they quietly pass laws and implement new rules they can threaten us with next time. Before it's all said and done, they'll be chipping newborns, monitoring exhaled air in public places, and calling again for vaccine passports to move freely. Edit: Rand Paul, in his 2024 Festivus Report, revealed the gub'ment was spending $millions to develop butt (anal) recognition technology, so they can tell who pinched that last loaf in public toilets.

I can't even carry on a bottle of drinking water. I find it hard to believe they'd allow booze as carry on. In her checked luggage, sure. If, as you say, it's properly packaged. It won't be immigration or customs issue. It'll be an airport security issue.

That was made clear yesterday when I flew in from Northern China. During the notorious heating season. From 35,000', I could take fantastic photos of the N. China landscape. It got cloudy in the south of China, but not smoggy. Then we entered Laos/Thai airspace and I couldn't even see the ground until we got down below 4000'. No clouds. Just smog.

The question is, who's paying them to do all that work, and how can the be assured they'll get hired to do it again? Or, more to the point, what would guarantee that they don't get the next contract?

Taking it from over 1500 pages, down to 118 pages. But the MSM claims most of the provisions are still there... The 118-page bill contains most of the provisions that were put in place in the bipartisan bill that was agreed to on Wednesday before it was killed after Musk criticized Republicans who supported it. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/approved-government-funding-bill/story?id=117005452 Perhaps Trump, with Musk's help, just sent a message "no more holding the gub'ment hostage with thousands of pages of your pork"?

Sadly, I was a Covid refugee in Galveston. I'd remigrated to stay with and help my brother who had a heart transplant. That's why I was among the first on the island to take the Pfizer. I'd have rather risked unknown side effects than risk being the one that killed him bringing Covid home. Not to mention the health care facilities I was driving him to, insisting we all be vaccinated ASAP and masked. The cops in Galveston were great, but the Karens would call them when they saw someone on the beach and they were obligated to run us off. They actually apologized, stayed a few minutes to chat, then filled out a contact report on the screen in their squad cars. They gave me a business card, probably so the Karens thought they were handing out fines. Scary times, seeing how people were so willing to trample on human rights, ruin livelihoods, and set the kids back years in their development.