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I can't believe he got security clearance.

Vivek and Ted Cruz have both come out this week predicting it will be Michelle, because the Dems need a DEI box ticker to replace Kamala. Lest they lose that all important 7% demographic... They predict it will be announced as late as possible so she'll still be in the honeymoon phase on the day. Or at least, to reduce the time available for the intense scrutiny that will start once it's announced.

Did the linked propaganda piece also mention that the FBI has changed the way they collect the crime stats? Making it so convoluted that a lot of US cities no longer report. So the Biden FBI has to estimate and extrapolate. In an election year... Nothing fishy there.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/trump-inauguration-protests-womens-march/index.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protesters-pepper-sprayed-demonstrations-erupt-across-us/93633154/ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/thousands-us-protest-president-elect-donald-trump/story?id=43427653 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501513889/anti-trump-protests-break-out-in-cities-across-the-country https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/12/us/protests-elections-trump/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/11/us/oregon-protest-riot/index.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-trump-protests-carry-on-for-fourth-straight-day-after-election/ Compared to 2016 when Hillary claimed she was cheated, Jan6 was "mostly peaceful". And limited in area and time, as opposed to coast to coast, lasting days and days.

A little misleading, since Soi4 is on the other side of Sukhumvit from Soi3 and Soi5. I walk that area pretty much every time I go to Bumrungrad hospital. The food looks great, and smells just as good.

So you don't figure the outcome will be different since Swissman David was a foreigner and his victim is a connected Thai doctor? The pragmatic in me says she'd be ahead by doing what the cops suggested. But I guess she's free to tilt at windmills if she wants. Didn't end well for the Don, though. I doubt it will end well for her. I may disagree with it, but it's their country, their customs.

That's not for me to decide, is it? I don't have to agree with local customs. I just have to accept them, because I have neither the right, nor the ability to change them to fit my foreign sense of justice. Or I can tilt at windmills, or go somewhere else.

I've been looking for tidy whiteys in Thailand for ages. Last week, I broke down and bought some of the hot pink and lime green Calvin Kleins on offer all over MBK and Chatachuk, mostly as a joke, but partially because I was running out of clean undies on my weeklong stay. I bought a few of the one-size-fits all stretchy style, in redonculous colors. Turns out, they're super comfortable. Who knew? I'm wearing a pair right now, my first full day since I washed them when I got home. I may end up getting away from cotton undies. If I do, I'm going to have to buy some more conservative colors. I wouldn't want to get wheeled into the emergency room wearing these.

Why do people move to a country, then demand the same standards they left behind? Monetary compensation is the local standard. They aren't going to change centuries of culture for her...

More likely, he was a typical American homeowner. My neighbors both in Thailand and China are astounded that I have "so many tools", which are just a fraction of what I had in the garage back home. RIP to the guy, and condolences to the family back home. My family is currently experiencing a health care emergency with my brother who had a heart bypass last night. Reminds me how important family is, even 10,000 miles away.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

+1 Starbuck's, Amazon Coffee, or any one of a zillion lesser known coffee shops in every town, most or all of them offering free wifi. I'd be reluctant to rock up to anyplace that holds itself out specifically as a "co-working space" unless I had a WP. Though I can't recall anyone ever getting caught out for doing online work without a WP (*), I'd hate to be the first one to get pointed at under some new crackdown. Edit: (*) I mean legal online work. I have heard of people busted for online scams.

Anyone know if the BIC pen company has had a surge of orders?

You guys keep posting that drivel about economic growth without the rest of the stats. Like growth in debt, public, private, and corporate. The reason GDP is up in the USA is the same reason that inflation is so high. This administration threw $trillions of borrowed money up against a wall to buy votes and solicit donations. And very little of that spending stuck and produced any tangible benefit, except to the uber-wealthy.

And students praying that their $200K Gender Studies student loan will go away, and millions of illegals hoping the $10K they paid to the cartels wasn't wasted.

How, exactly, did Trump's DOJ decide anything when the issues presented in the Texas lawsuit are still winding their way through the courts, almost 4 years later? With a goodly percentage of the rulings going against the illegal changes made by some activist election officials, without the required legislative approvals.

I question the eyesight of the 28% that don't have doubts. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not dumb or disingenuous. Or suffering from an unmentionable syndrome.

Not so great for Ukrainians on the front line, soon to be facing the repatriated. As if they're not dying fast enough already. Maybe that's Turkey's goal. I don't claim to know their politics.

Read the Texas vs Pennsylvania et al lawsuit from December 2020. Then read the amicus briefs by 18 states and 126 congressman agreeing that there was cause to question the results. Trump would have been irresponsible if he hadn't questioned the results. It was an official act, backed by hundreds of elected officials. The idea that he went rogue is ludicrous.

Stern warning... Let me guess. "Don't" ?

I was thrilled when he got elected, promising transparency and a bunch of other things. He delivered none of what he promised. I wasn't pleased at all when he got a 2nd term. Even less pleased when he left behind the most clandestine gub'ment the USA has ever had. And that's saying a lot. Plus, he still didn't deliver anything that was less expensive than when he walked in. (unless you were on welfare...) I had Obamacare. Cost me $1,400 a month, and had more holes in it than Swiss cheese, on top of a horrendous deductible.

If there was a Repub that could beat Trump, they'd be running him/her. They're not like the Dem elite who tell their voters who they're not allowed to vote for.

My 2 favorite wood markets in Bangkok are around Bang Sue and another surrounding the Golden Mountain Temple. I can wander around either one for hours. I'm traveling today so I struggle posting a map link (fat finger typist. I am) Maybe that'll jog someone else's memory. The market around Golden Mount is hard to miss. But I'll have to look at Google maps to nail down the one near Bang Sue. Neither was close to MRT or BTS 10 years ago, but maybe they've built out closer to Bang Sue. Edit: Google maps, search "Bang Sue wood market".

Not surprising that dumping a bunch of borrowed money caused a bump in the stock market, where the top 10% own 90% of the stock. Leaves out the 90% who don't own as much, struggling to buy food and gas and pay the rent. It's just like the millions of homeowners that are celebrating the huge increase in real estate prices. Yipee. Until they realize that they can't afford to sell their house and buy another. And they're now getting smacked with huge increases in property taxes. Not to mention the millions of young people who have been locked out of owning a home.

Even smarter are the Dems, who haven't announced their candidate, in spite of ample evidence that Joe's not up to it. Keeping their real candidates out of the primary fray where they beat the crap out of each other, and out of the general election fray to keep from any deep dives by what little honest media is still reporting the truth. I'm still betting on a Michelle/ Gavin ticket. Saw last night that even Ted Cruz is predicting Michelle.