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For anyone interested, here's a copy of the bill. https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf The Repubs didn't kill it. It was DOA.

Regardless of whose fault, had the guy been safely ensconced with 4 wheels, seatbelts and 2 tons of steel, he'd probably be looking at an expensive repair instead of a funeral. If that. It's harder to miss 4,400 pounds of steel in your mirror than a scooter. One more data point.

American conservative journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has said that his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be aired at 6 pm EST on Thursday. https://www.rt.com/russia/592042-tucker-putin-interview-date/ Edit: “He parrots Vladimir Putin’s pack of lies about Ukraine,” former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told MSNBC. So he's pissing off the right people.

Google "Why you shouldn't wrestle with a pig"

Give it up, man. You're getting muddy and they're enjoying it.

That right there is why they make it harder for expats than it needs to be.

So the crime rate of the general population is higher than 100%?

Go out and work in a field for $8 or $10 a day and see how eager you are to do it again the next day. Or leave the house every morning with 50 baht in your pocket (because that's your discretionary money for the day, to buy food and water and whatever else you want) and see what kind of a mood you're in. I think the oldsters do it out of habit from before globalization when they could buy food and necessities for a 3rd world price. Now, the product of their labor is shipped out to the highest bidder around the world. And they can't afford it. Kids in Thailand today know they are well and truly screwed.

Yes, them too. Seems like every time there's a flashpoint around the world (Israel for example), we hear about all the Thai workers that are in harms way. Leads me to suspect it's not a population problem in the biological sense, it's a retention issue.

I wonder how much of that is the best and brightest of Thai youth seeking opportunity in higher wage countries?

His interview with Russell Brand was probably a good heads up for him. Remember he tried to interview Putin a couple of years back, but backed off under threat(s) from the gub'ment. Besides which, he didn't have a venue he could count on as he still worked at Fox. Now, he's got his own website and support from Musk, so it'll be tougher to squelch. Edit: BTW, I thought my previously linked article from the Daily Caller was poorly edited because they wrote as if the interview had already taken place. According to the Russkie press, it seems that it happened yesterday.

I'd suggest the OP save the pictures to some format like .jpg where the photos actually show up. I'm not about to click on a link with a .heic format. No clue what that is, and no interest in finding out the hard way that it may be malware and eat my hard drive.

I suspect it is. I was just tickled with the idea of an ID with the name "Alias". Kind of like I feel sorry for anyone actually named John Doe. Because you know they take a lot of scrutiny each time they pull out that ID.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US journalist Tucker Carlson on Tuesday for an interview, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a daily media briefing on Wednesday. The American had announced the imminent release of the footage hours earlier. https://www.rt.com/russia/591999-peskov-carlson-putin-interview/

Pretty much guaranteed, if all you watch is the edited sections that CNN and MSDNC will no doubt be airing. Kudos to Musk and to Carlson for promising to show it uncensored. But that means the majority won't sit through the entirety. Not enough attention span.

Yep, for Sure. Along those lines, when I lived in the USA, I kept a couple of Walmart pre-paid debit cards with a few hundred dollars in each account to use on my cell phone and on websites and with vendors I didn't trust. A few days before a big bill came due, I'd add the funds I needed to pay, for instance, $900 for auto insurance. I figured I'd only lose a few hundred $$ if they got stolen or compromised. But with no access to a Walmart to top up, oh well...

Yup. Life was a lot simpler when I slept in the same bed every night.

My biggest vulnerability (I think) is the Amazon, EBay, Orbitz and Hotels.com accounts that, by necessity (or is it just convenience?), have my debit card numbers attached. Used occasionally to buy goodies, onward tickets, and to book rooms on the road. Edit: And I'd add the emails from my bank, my car insurance company, the gub'ment (SS office), my health care provider and...and...

Here's a couple of updates... Edit: And some great details, diagrams and photos of the issue. Worth a look. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/ntsb-report-on-alaska-flight-1282-says-key-bolts-missing-when-boeing-delivered-jet/ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/06/business/ntsb-boeing-alaska-door-plug-blowout-faa/index.html

That sounded suspicious to me as well. I suspect they took his passport and told him to go arrange the funds. Or perhaps just warned him he was on the no fly list until he arranged the funds.

May as well hear it from the man himself. But I'll bet most of the guys on here won't spend the 5 minutes. We're in Moscow to Interview Vladimir Putin. Here's why we're doing it. https://tuckercarlson.com/why-were-in-moscow/

If the OP has an attorney representing him/her in the civil case, I'd suggest consulting the attorney to see if there's a solution, perhaps depositing a bond to guaranty a return. In the interest of educating expats and tourists here, I hope the OP will (in a different thread) tell us what lessons he may have learned, being in a civil suit where his freedom to travel is curtailed. It may help others avoid the same unfortunate situation. In any case, my heart goes out to him. I missed my father's funeral because, for reasons that seem trivial in hindsight, my family was unable to contact me in time to travel back to the USA after his death. Sad as that was, I have made peace with it.

Even if you trust your spouse 100%, why burden her with the responsibility for that one family member (and every family has one) who's going to get into debt and come begging for a bailout? If she owns an asset that can be sold or used as collateral, there's a good chance there will be familial pressure to help the black sheep out of trouble. Or, what I saw more often among my Thai coworkers, the family member who's got a great business idea and just needs some funding. Which rarely ends well...

The real difference is that, as President, Trump had the authority to declassify anything he chose to. The VP's, didn't.

If that's your takeaway from the recent decision, you're not getting the full picture. You may want to read the analyses by Jonathan Turley and by Gregg Jarrett on the topic. But that will require turning to news sources not approved by the left.