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Something's causing the massive increase. And the people I trust the least to do the investigation are those on the hook for $ hundreds of billions of liability if it turns out to be their product. Whether that's Big Farma or Big Food or even cell phone radiation. We deserve to know.

Maybe. But the death rates in the USA were decreasing steadily long before the MMR vaccine came out in 1971. Most people seem to think that was due to improved sanitation and living conditions, and would have continued to drop with or without the MMR. I don't claim to know the answer. I want our health experts to dig into it, free of the corrupting influence of those profiting from it. In countries with deplorable sanitary conditions, they obviously may need a different calculation.

Someone needs to explain the massive increase in the rate of autism and other chronic childhood (and adult) diseases that we've seen over the past 50 years. It may not be vaccines causing it. But I kinda want to know. There are too many entities trying to squelch the data, good, bad and indifferent. I'm hoping RFK Jr digs into the data. It's out there. We just need smart people not paid by moneyed interests to dig into it. A little help from the AI community would be handy, too.

That's a pretty concise summary of the state of things. They really screwed the pooch with the mRNAs. (Those are my words, not from any specific sources)

The condo owner obviously rents his place out, not the building owner. I don't know how the numbers shake out in Thailand, but back home, the developers often rent out unsold units to generate a little revenue. Which makes it tough to complain and get any resolution when it's the developer and not a single unit owner.

From the linked article: Officials did not answer questions regarding the patient’s specific age, any other health issues, or details about the patient’s schooling in a press conference jointly hosted by Covenant Health and the City of Lubbock Public Health on Wednesday. That's a little light on details given how many students in Texas came across the border in the past few years, from countries where the MMR vaccination rate is low and underlying health issues abound. Especially when the OP is blaming anti-vaxxers for the death. Often, there's a reason they go light on the details. If they want to push a narrative.

Nope. I follow the news. That's Tara Reade back when she was hot. She deserves the $100M for all the stress that did that to her. But she should get the money from Joe personally and from the Dem party. Not the US taxpayers.

When I'm walking through a dodgy area, I take a few 20 baht notes out of my wallet and put them in my shirt pocket. I've never been accosted like in the OP, but I often peel off one of the 20's to the beggars that I pass all the time. That's in Khlong Toei when I lived near Asoke, and in Chinatown where I stay on my visits nowadays. I still use cash for 99% of my daily purchases (By the numbers. I pull out the plastic for high value purchases)

Levis Dockers and songkran shirts (my favorite shirts) are 150 baht in Bangkok (if you can even find the songkran shirts back home). I don't know if the Dockers are used, fake or factory rejects, but they look fine to me. I've bought a bunch of them. 2 pairs are cheaper than a Mickey-D's burger at the airport.

I'd vote for a $5 million citizenship program, as long as they do a meaningful criminal background check.

Every month, I make a round trip from north China to Bangkok and almost every month the planes (usually 737-800 and A320) are full. And I haven't noticed a drop in the number of flights to select from. The ticket price varies by season and special holiday (as do the hotel rates). I think the discrepancy lies in the "94% increase in cancellations". That's nowhere near the same thing as a 94% drop in passengers. Very few people cancel a flight after they've been charged for it. I've only done that once in the past 22 months because it cost more to do a change than to cancel my flight and get another. I did have the airline cancel one flight but they got me on the same flight next day. If only 1 in a hundred flights get cancelled, then 1.94 flights in a hundred isn't a huge number. And on an aside, traveling with the Chinese airlines (where I'm often the only laowai on the plane) has gotten pretty pleasant over the past 25 years since my first flight on a Chinese airline. Back then, it was not pleasant. Nowadays, it's fine.

She was everyone's type: The frumpy unhinged 50 something that accused Trump? Not so much.

He'll be along soon.

Speaking of honeypots, I'd love to get a look at the babes that James O'Keefe is using on OMG. They must be absolute stunners to get the lefty idiots to open up on hidden cameras with revelations that could get them tossed in jail. But if they did show their faces (male or female, I don't judge idiots by sexual preference), they'd have to find different ones. I suspect this Comey business is just the start of well earned payback for all the illegal deeds perpetrated on Trump, his supporters and his campaign.

Or London?

That post would read a lot different on one of the other threads.

Give 'em 10 baht.

Not to worry. Stacey Abrams' group has a $2 billion slush fund. That should get them through the midterms.

I've got over 60 news sources on my Bookmarks list. Though I do have preferences, I'm well clear of any bubble. And syndrome free.

I'll bet you were one who was surprised when Biden self destructed during the debate, then surprised again when they threw him under the bus. You had no clue he was cognitively not there. Because you only listen to the reporters propagandists on the one side. The press isn't free. It was bought and paid for. Not insignificantly, by our own USAID money. To spread lies.

Yes, but the clock is ticking. They should disallow every venue that failed to report on Biden's cognitive decline. The American people deserve honesty from the press.

That's assuming there's really an employee there, and they're even reading their e-mail. Musk is of the belief that some employees aren't even real and paychecks are going out to nefarious actors. And other so called employees aren't working at all. Whether he's right or wrong, I can't think of an easier way to ferret them out. I think of it as a 2FA to get your paycheck. If you don't respond, you won't.

Long before anyone would even want to see KJP. Ever again.

People on Ambien have been filmed doing much worse. Even on airplanes.

Used to be below industry wages, in return for job security. Nowadays, the average gub'ment employee makes above the private sector wages. Where I had to work over 30 years to get a full pension. Not 20. (I didn't make the 30 years. A lot of us got canned just before we were fully vested. A common practice in today's private sector job market). And it's not like they're not vested from the first day, albeit it at a limited rate. Just like the good private sector jobs, if you're lucky enough to get one of those and not one of the new and zoomy jobs that offer no security and only a 401K. Plus, you just had to resort to insults. You couldn't help it. Typical lefty. When they got nothing, they go to the insults and claiming racist, fascist or homophobe.