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Off topic, I know... Here's some eye candy from the Vintage Vespa shop on the river in Bangkok's Chinatown. In the immortal words of Jody Foster in Nell. "Want"

That's probably the most profound thing I've read all day here on AN.

I'm supporting the kids dying on both sides. Ukes and Russkies. Dying over borders that haven't moved in over 2 years and lots of dead bodies. It's time for the dying to stop and the rebuilding to begin. Long past time.

I'm pretty sure that every state in the Union has $12T worth of rare earths. But it would cost $15T to extract them. They're not really rare. Just expensive to dig up. But, I digress. I hope Trump puts Graham on the front lines if he foments a shooting war. By special decree if need be.

By show of hands, who really believes they were coming for just 2 years? That's not enough time to get them registered to vote Blue...

Will the cars be forced to stop at the local tailors for a look-see?

Stephen Miller nailed it in response to a CNN hack: MILLER: When you say, ‘Do we believe that district court judges rubber stamp each action?’ There is a premise that is built into that that is absurd. The President is the sole head of the executive branch. He’s the only officer in the entire government that’s elected by the entire American people. Democracy cannot function…In fact, democracy does not exist at all if each action the president takes has to be approved by individually approved by 700 district court judges? That’s democracy? So if there’s 15 communist crazy judges on the court, that each of them as a team working together, can block and freeze each and every executive action. Joe Biden was allowed to by this same court system to import 20 million illegal foreigners into this country.

It's great to have a leader, eh? Pelosi and HRC tried to keep the Dems in line, but they keep leaving. Here's hoping they run AOC in 2028!

Lefties thrive on anger and resentment.

I found it occasionally at random pharmacies, but they were usually sold out the next time I looked. Last time was at the Foodland on Soi 16 in Bangkok. But they only had it once. Still, that was a good day. Otherwise, it's the 80 or 100mg baby aspirin for blood thinner at ridiculous prices. Available all over. I'm wondering if anyone has ordered any (successfully) from overseas. Like Amazon or... or...

It'll be interesting to see how it changes when Ukes and Russkies are no longer hiding from conscription.

Strangely, I don't see many Repubs going Blue. Why do you think that is???

Don't let those kids get near Biden...

I'm becoming convinced that a lot of European (and American) politicians won't be satisfied until they get NATO into a shooting war with Russia. They're still reliving the '50s.

What if you have 90% chance of getting nits and cooties vs 1 in a million chance of getting a splattered brain? Then, what do you do with the helmet when you're not on the scooter taxi? Do you carry it around all day? I wore one when I was scooter taxiing between home and office because I had a place to put it on both ends. But not going point A to point B where I had no place to store a decent (spelled e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e) helmet. And the plastic crap on offer are less than useless.

Russia's got better hackers than the Brits. This could be an own goal for the UK.

The only ones getting false hope are the broke ones. If they have money, the lonely (and the ugly) can have a harem around them if they want. I still remember Donnie from when I first moved to Asia (not Thailand). Poor guy was uglier than a kick in the nuts. But he paraded around the expat bars for over a year with a hooker on each arm. Then, the Joint Venture fell apart and he got sent home. I think the saddest day of his life was when he found out that the US Embassy wouldn't give visas to hookers.

Is there any evidence that any of that money came back to her personally, or is it just a case of bad policy? If it's just bad policy, how is it that they're going after her personal assets and her freedom?

You mean other than the doctors and nurses telling me that my symptoms are a commonly reported side effect? But only on my 2nd trip to the ER a couple of years later... On my first trip, they said that they didn't know what caused my symptoms, but it definitely wasn't the vaccine I had the day before. Here's a better question. What motive do I have for lying about it?

You wanna see the ER receipts?

Let's dissect that Grok statement. First, they claimed that there was no evidence that it left the injection site. Then data rolled in. Next, they claimed that it was in the blood, but it was transitory and wouldn't get into organs. Then data rolled in. Then they claimed that it is in the organs even years later, but it won't cause problems. Now, data is rolling in. Had someone posted up a couple of years ago that it would still be in organs (and tumors) years later, it would have been deleted as heresy. Now, that's widely accepted, but maybe there's no evidence that it caused the cancer. Until more data rolls in. How far do they have to move the goalposts before people snap to the fact that they just don't know?

Did they not end up in debt after too? The Party did. (End up in debt) But if you look at the big discrepancy between Blue and Red spending, it was how much they grifted to their respective staffs. Lots of Dem staffers got filthy rich. No so many Repub staffers, though. I'm sure the Dem staffers are looking forward to getting even richer in 2026 and 2028. It really eases the sting of the big honking L.

Thanks for having the huevos to come back and close the loop. But how did you sort it, for the benefit of others who may come up against it? And, out of sheer curiosity, why did you opt for a visa for 60 days?

That's one opinion.

Surely someone in the Thai gub'ment has access to a GIS map showing what land is off limits to development and access to Google Earth or some other commercial satellite data to show what development is encroaching? As I recall, a lot of Phuket is off limits because it's too steep to develop safely.