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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.

There were a lot of sheeple, for sure. But a lot of us did stupid stuff just to avoid getting arrested or fired. I gave up walking my steps at the beach, not because I was afraid of catching the virus, but because the cops were fining people for walking on the closed beaches. As if walking on an empty beach in the middle of winter was a dangerous activity. I wore a mask, because that's the only way I was allowed to buy my groceries.

Since the OP is based on nothing other than forecasted performance, here's mine. 5 minutes after Trump's inauguration, the truth about the economy will be revealed and it won't be pretty. They'll, of course, blame it on the Bad Orange Man, but it'll really be yet another downward revision like they've been doing every month on their fudged jobs numbers. Perfect example is when the millions of unemployed illegals start being counted in the "available labor pool", and the real unemployment rate becomes public. Right now, they're hiding it... The right wing press is forecasting even worse (some even using the D word), but here's one from long before the election results were known: In light of recent economic developments, J.P. Morgan Research has raised the probability of a U.S. and global recession starting before end-2024 to 35%. The probability of a recession happening by the end of 2025 remains unchanged at 45%. https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/global-research/economy/recession-probability

Excellent advice, as I lost some thumb skin when I didn't know the difference between "land" and "return to home". I pushed the RTH button while holding my Mini 3 to keep it from wandering over and hitting my big screen when I tried to duplicate the indoor test flight from the showroom. You'd have sworn I angered it, as it ramped up trying to reach the pre-programmed height in the RTH function. Instead of just landing, it was programmed to clear the buildings on its way back home. I had to remove the battery to calm it down. Live and learn... The cutie in the showroom made it look so simple.

The OP may want to specify his location. There's a few shops in Bangkok Chinatown that pound out plates in the wide open light of day. I suspect there's more, perhaps closer to the OP's home range.

Shedding is going to be an interesting research topic in the coming years. But I haven't seen enough to be convinced it's a danger. Yet.

So you can understand why I'm not sad to see our "seasoned diplomats" replaced.

But that's what Whoopi said... She also apparently claimed that Musk and Vance were scheming to off Trump.

I'm still alive but the left side of my face is still numb, I don't have the balance to climb a ladder and the fatigue has me taking a nap every day, since the day after my 2nd Pfizer. That matters, too. And my friends who opted out of the jabs? They're still alive, too. With none of the side effects.

Sure they do. On a quid pro quo basis. Our seasoned diplomats have been doing it on a quid pro squat basis.

That's because of our "seasoned diplomats", who think that giving our money away will make them not hate us.

Do a balance sheet. How much free money does the US send abroad, and how much do we get back? While you're at it, look up how much US exports pay in foreign duties, vs how much we levy on incoming goods.

Trump made it clear that he's not interested in business as usual, the one sided trade and defense agreements that have the US paying for so much and getting so little in return. That's what you get when you send "seasoned diplomats" that have never held a real job in the real world. I wanna see some junkyard dogs negotiating on my behalf. Tom Homan is a great example, though on the domestic front...

Before you do, make sure they're not location limited. My E-Scooter in China has GPS and knows where it is, and I can program it to not go outside my home range. My GF can look up my location, speed, etc from our home computer. (I deliberately allowed that option) I suspect rental companies use the same tech to keep theirs from disappearing.

Notable are the absence of any death or serious injury. And the lack of scooters in the story... That's not a coincidence. I'll bet the 16 year old's parents are thankful for that.

The same unelected aides who have been running it since his first day.

And that's why so many Thai drivers flee the scene of an accident, and don't seem to get in trouble for it, if they turn themselves in later.