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Of course it's political. They're trying the only charge that cannot be connected to Ol' Joe. Probably so they can claim they treat both sides equally. And to deflect attention away from the myriad of crimes that may implicate Joe. Most righties don't give a rat about this case. It's a red herring.

Ignored only on the left. If they didn't ignore calls to crime, most of The Squad would be doing time.

I think that would be like Elon Musk asking me how I pulled off my successful garage sale.

Here's another one: Former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer seems to be the victim of an old fashion succubus after text messages appear to show he never raped accuser Lindsey Hill. Their sexual relationship appeared to be not only consensual but likely predatory on the part of Hill. In a video posted to Twitter, Bauer claims Hill sent messages to her friends devising a plan to take advantage of the former L.A. Dodger. He had no idea what was coming for him when he invited her to come over, but he should have. Ruined his MLB career, chased him all the way to Japan to play ball, then... The author reams him pretty good for listening to the small head, and rightfully so. She was evil, but he should have known better. https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/rooke-bauer-hill-message-sex-allegations/

So, you don't think the zillions of "I love my new life..." YouTubes and Twitters are promoting the switch? I'm not claiming you are. But that it's quite possible, and has become quite fashionable, to promote transgenderism. You may recall the trans lady who recently died in Thailand. She was a paid spokesperson for one of the Thai based trans clinics. Strangely, they wiped her presence from their website, leading me to wonder if maybe her life wasn't the bowl of cherries she portrayed when she was promoting their services. And the wonderful lifestyle. Edit: Another word for "paid spokesperson": Promoter.

Of course you can. Here's an advertisement promoting their hospital in Thailand as a great place to get trans surgery. Along with a bunch of testimonials promoting their services. It's become quite the industry. Google Trans surgery Thailand. https://www.kamolhospital.com/testimonials

Wait... This is a serious thread? My bad. Carry on then.

Gotta wonder... Who's going to have the worse consequences, Fox or Meatball? https://torontosun.com/news/world/accused-philly-riot-looter-meatball-asks-fans-for-cash-as-welcome-home-gift Looks like Meatball may even make a tidy profit on the deal. Fox? I doubt it.

Belated thanks for the thoughtful reply. Especially when, in retrospect, my question was worded snarkier than I now wish it had been.

Hearing a lot of crickets here...

What has Biden actually built? All I see is a bunch of money going out, with pie-in-the-sky projections claiming benefits stretching over the future. Any idiot can throw money at a problem. Does he mean like the electric buses that don't run and the offshore wind farms that are now having to renege on their contracts because they can't produce power at the promised prices?

I wonder when Yingluck's flight arrives?

The Erawan Shrine bombing killed 22 innocent people and injured over 100 others in 2015 and the tourist numbers kept increasing until Covid hit. Same general area, too. This event, tragic as it was, will be a flash in the pan.

You're confusing irreversible and permanent. If I keep my kid out of school for 5 years, the results will be reversible by sending him back. But his life will be permanently affected. He will never gain parity with his peer group. If a kid hits puberty at age 20 because they decide to quit taking their puberty blockers, their lives will never be the same, even if the effects are reversed 100%. (If that's actually the case.) That's a permanent effect.

Let me guess.... All of the rice has to flow through one of a few families somewhere on its way from the farm to the end user?

Good points, but I think it's always more palatable to stop an increase than it is to claw back some benefit that's already there. I absolutely agree about saving to the NHS. I know it'll never happen in either the USA or UK, but it would probably save a lot of money if they paid airfare and hospital costs for people to fly to Thailand to get treated, either NHS or Medicare funds. It would relieve the backlog in either country as well. My heart bypass cost about 1/10 of the same surgery in the USA, and that was at the most expensive hospital in Bangkok. Excellent care, BTW, and 100% covered by my employer's insurance. Under Medicare, the US gub'ment could have flown me to BKK, put me up for a month in a nice serviced apartment, paid for my surgery and my food for less than half of the hospital bill back in the US of A. I suspect it's similar in the NHS, though the numbers may be less transparent because it's the NHS.

Agree or disagree with the policy, I think the rationale behind it is that a GBP sent to a UK resident circulates around the economy several times, paying UK taxes, supporting UK jobs (who spend it yet again in the UK), etc. A GBP sent overseas is lost to the UK economy. Disappears into the ether...

Pretty soon, she'll be making those rent payments to retired military officers... And I expect we'll be seeing massive resorts popping up on prime locations that were former military land. Again, owned by retired military bigwigs. "Reform" rarely looks like they promise. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

Interesting choice of venue... New Hampshire.

Trump wasn't a serious candidate last time, and he isn't this time. They just enjoy watching lefties' heads explode and knickers twist.

Someday, maybe somebody can explain to me how someone else using a dodgy agent makes my life more difficult. Personally, I'm more of a live and let live kind of guy, because I generally have no clue why someone may choose that method. Most of the guys I've known doing it that way were perfectly legal doing monthly border bounces for years, and then suddenly they couldn't.

I agree. But the reality is that there are more than a few guys on here using the dodgy agent route and I'm sure more will follow. And a lot of long stay guys had to switch to that route when their loophole closed since 2014. (monthly border bouncers, etc) I don't advocate it (nor have I decided where to retire to). I'm simply asking how much to budget if you choose that route.

So, which of my claims are you disagreeing with? That the mRNA vaccines weren't put through long term human trials before they were released to the public, or that my health stinks since I got my 2nd Pfizer? I specifically remember conversations from the period where the talking heads said that testing such technology on humans would have been unethical unless they identified a benefit to offset any (yet unquantified) risk. BTW, when you're talking about dinking about with RNA or DNA, "long term" means a lot longer than a few months. I have no doubt that vaccines saved many lives, and were very appropriate for some segments of the population. I've never been anti-vax. Just anti-mandate, and very much in favor of full disclosure, allowing informed decisions.

Wouldn't ask if I already knew...

Not sure a TGF is the best idea right out of the blocks, at least until he gets the lay of the land. The most eager of them eat noobs for breakfast, from the wallet out.