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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/

Every year on August 13, he neglects the 10% of voters that are lefties on Left Hander's Day. Not a peep from the WH. Despite the fact that honoring us on our day probably wouldn't lose him a single righty vote. He could have done the same to the 0.6-1.5% of voters who identify as Trans. Instead, he panders to the 1%, alienating some portion of the other 99%. Just on the numbers, he was a political idiot for that Proclamation, especially with the coincidence of Easter. It was an unforced error. And the Repubs picked up on it and ran.

Not fair! April 1 jokes need to be off the wall and something that would never happen IRL. This one is too credible.

That's disappointing.

I wonder what failed? Maybe someone stole the copper cable?

You mean the CNN campaign piece, carrying water for the DNC and Sleepy Joe in an election year? Read the linked article, and she gives herself away quite a few times.

Self loathing, or sad to see the progress they've struggled for and made, being set back by the idiots like Dylan Mulvaney and Drag Queen Story hour in elementary schools?

I buy the good stuff. But the topic is what we find in restaurants.

My favorite beach resort in Jomtien used to cater to Eastern Europeans. Mostly Russkies, Belarussians, Ukrainians and East Germans. With their families, I found them to be delightful people and very receptive to striking up a conversation in English. And they all got along well with each other. In fairness, I did not party with them. Just at the beach during the day. And they weren't solo travelers (mongers). They were at the beach with their families. And, being a resort, they were tourists. Not long stay. Then circumstances changed, the Eastern European tourism dropped off and the place was inundated with Chinese tourists. Who were generally delightful, as well. I guess you generally find what you're seeking. And what you're giving off.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has assured the Thai public that no instances of necrotizing fasciitis, a dangerous bacterial infection often referred to as a "flesh-eating" disease, have been reported in Thailand this year. Oh man. They just jinxed it. Time to stock up before the run on antibiotics?

There are dozens of holidays every year that I won't be celebrating. That's one of them. August 13 is another, though I bat and golf lefty.

Quoting Caitlynn Jenner from above: “I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most Holy of Holy days – a self-proclaimed devout Catholic – as Transgender Day of Visibility. The only thing you should be declaring on this day is ‘HE is Risen,'” he wrote. So yes.

Did Easter fall on March 31 last year?

I wonder how much of that is scaremongering to keep people from deleting Edge because that would reduce MS revenue they make from people using Edge and (wingnut conspiracy alert) what it does in the background, sending user data that gets sold on.

Another unforced error by a guy with over 40 years in politics.

Most American heroes are.

Not true at all, especially the cheap TP. But whether it's toilet paper or napkins, the low quality stuff shreds to pulp and stick to my fingers when I'm wiping off greasy food. Then I have to find some water to get rid of the pulp. Then I wipe my hands in my pocket to get rid of the water. I have no objection to TP on the table, as long as it's not the real cheap stuff that shreds like that. And in fairness, some of the napkins on offer are just as bad.

I'm outta here when they mandate prostate exams in tourist areas.

That's going to create quite a real estate slump as 25% of some blocks will have empty weed shops.