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Joe could walk across the White House lawn with a bloody machete in one hand and a decapitated head in the other, and the Dems wouldn't vote to impeach. And thank God for that, knowing who's in the wings. Huck's right. It's not time yet...

There's going to be a lot of stupidity between now and election day '24.

Quadrupled, to 1 in 120,000 of the population. Still liking those odds. My inkling is they're finding more cases because they're testing more of the patients. Prove that wrong.

When your odds of being in the hospital with Covid this week are 1 in 120,000 and your odds of dying with Covid this week are 1 in 20,000,000, I'd say you're well over the "Information threshold" and into fear mongering.

In a population of 60 million, that's 0.00083% of the population being hospitalized WITH Covid in a week. No clue how many are being hospitalized FOR Covid, but I suspect it's a tiny minority of that 0.00083%. Extrapolating over a year, I like my odds when there's a 0.043% chance of being hospitalized WITH Covid this entire year. (That's a 1 in 2400 chance) Probably even lower for those who have no underlying health conditions that would send them to hospital where they'd be Covid tested in the first place. So I'm going to go on living my life, worrying about real threats like crazy drivers...

How much foot traffic on the street the barstool faces?

I'm sure that's true. But I'm even more sure that King Charles, John Kerry and the other knobs that are negotiating our futures will never take on the insect based diet they have in mind for the rest of us. Somehow, I don't envision their staff planning their menus around sustainability. For me, give me a big slab of dead cow. Recently, more dead pigs and chickens, because beef has gotten so expensive post Covid. If I can't buy them, we shoot our own in Texas where I'm from. Feral pigs. Never out of season, and you don't even need a hunting license. Just a friendly landowner who wants rid of his pests.

Be careful what you wish for. You'll soon be inundated with the idiots who follow the innovators and the imitators. I can't count the number of great, sleepy places that have been ruined when they became mainstream (spelled e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e and crowded) Better to stay off the radar and enjoy the way things are.

Coming soon to a barbeque near you... This photo's from a night market in Kanchanaburi.

The only definitive answer is that the airline can deny you boarding without an ongoing ticket. Whether they will or not depends on which airline, which country you're flying from, and the mood of the agent at the gate. In 7 or 8 flights to Thailand this year (US citizen, visa exempt, from Singapore and China) I've been asked to show an onward ticket just about every time. I've also been asked to flash cash 3 or 4 times, as the gate agents simply ran down the checklist on their screen prompts. May happen the same way for the OP, or he may breeze through. But why risk it as cheap as rental (and short range) tickets are? At the very least, have the rental ticket website bookmarked so you can step out of the queue and buy one on the spot with no muss, fuss or payment issues. Frazzled, time crunched, in the airport queue isn't the time to figure out which credit cards they take...

None of my business, I'm sure. But I'm curious whether the OP's visa status is based on the marriage to that same woman? Because I can see that being the next thing that comes out of the blue from nowhere and presents a real unpleasant surprise.

Subsequently, the police accompanied Suwate to the police station for interrogation and an alcohol test. Although Suwate reportedly tested negative for alcohol, he appeared disoriented and unable to respond to police queries. As a precaution, he was transported to the hospital for a blood test to ascertain the presence of alcohol or drugs in his system. The news Facebook page, Drama-addict, later reported that Suwate was tested twice to try and find alcohol and drugs in his system but the tests confirmed that his system was clean. Possessing a can of beer in the car isn't the same as drunk driving.

As cold as it's been up here in the Middle Kingdom for a few weeks now, if the planes aren't loaded up with visa exempt escapees from the Arctic weather conditions, it's just not going to happen. Being one of the few who come to Thailand for my visa run, I'm sure looking forward to my next one in a couple of weeks. It is cold... (Not saying that it won't get colder, but winter hit suddenly this year.) The good news is the airfare is running about half of pre-Covid prices, but the bad news is that the schedules stink, with few (if any) non stops where there were several non-stops a day to my city of 15 million before Covid. The planes are still quite full, but not nearly as many of them. And I can live with an overnight stay in a nice transfer hotel at about $20-30 USD, along with an occasional cancelled flight. At some point, they need to draw a line limiting how low they're willing to go to get the bodies, especially when they really just want the money.

Dang. I thought I'd been banished.

Great to hear a positive review about the driving habits and skills. My experience with mini vans has been so bad that I avoid them like the plague. But that's probably the difference between well run visa runs catering to foreigners (with fixed seating) and a mini van that caters to locals where they pack the van at the origin then stop along the way to pack it even tighter. The first time I took one (Kanchanaburi to BKK) was so bad I thought it had to be a fluke. My 2nd trip was the last time I ever set my butt into a kamikaze van. It was as every bit as bad as the first. Glad to hear there's a comfortable visa run option.

You're caught up in the minutiae. She's a tiny part of this. My link got taken down, but Google her name and you can find dozens of links, a lot of them to MSM articles and a lot of them quoting Israeli media and official sources. Don't just look at what I linked. Follow some of those links and you'll find witness accounts of tanks destroying homes with hostages inside, helicopters ordered out with no clear delineation of who is who on the battlefield, civilians caught in the crossfire and a lot of other disturbing witness statements and after action inspections. Do some Googling yourself and then Google the names and places in those articles. It's all pretty disturbing.

Enjoy the echo chamber.

Gosh. I counted 15.

Anybody on this entire thread that claims they know that any info they linked to is "true" is either lying or naïve. What I linked to was a starting point, with other links and other names to Google. I've been curious enough to go down a bunch of rabbitholes this afternoon before I popped my head up on this thread. Mostly because I don't trust interweb fact checkers.

There's links out the wazoo. And dozens of results when I Bing'ed her name and then other names listed in those linked articles. You should follow a couple and get out of your echo chamber. It'll be weeks before the fact checkers get to this stuff.

Wouldn't surprise me. But that doesn't mean he's wrong on this one. Seems to have quite a few sources, including Israeli media and military, in addition to survivors.

Reference my link above to Ron Paul's article.

Bing searched that name, and if what she (and others) say is true, it's pretty disturbing. I'm sure it will be awhile before the truth becomes clear, if ever.

I had to look that one up. I thought that's what condoms were for. But turns out, it's another name for giardia.

Obviously, do what you think is right. But my bet is that a lot more guys have a can of WD40 around the house than a compressor. And it’s certainly cheaper to buy the WD40 than a compressor. And spraying compressed air into the works just drives the mung (that’s what we call congealed, dusty grease) and corrosion deeper. The most common problem with a drill press that’s been idle for too long is that the grease has lost its aromatics and congealed, along with some corrosion and dust that’s gotten into the mix. WD40 will wash some of the grease away, but it also replaces the aromatics and the grease that’s left is renewed as a lubricant instead of a blob of thick wax. That’s especially true if the bearings are sintered bronze, where the grease is actually in the pore space. And if it’s a ball bearing, I challenge anyone to remove all the grease with WD40 without soaking the bearing for an extended period. You’ll remove some of the grease, but not the majority with a spray. And the grease that remains will be a better lubricant than the dried up stuff. The best solution is to take off the endplates, clean out the corrosion and mung and soak then re-lube the bearings properly. But that’s quite a job. Bottom line, if it moves and it shouldn’t, duct tape. If it doesn’t move and it should, WD40.