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So how'za bout they lock up all the Dems who fueled 2-1/2 assassination attempts against a candidate with their vitriolic rhetoric? Or the Dems that incited a whole season of mostly peaceful town burnings with their anti-cop rhetoric? Or do you just want to lock up the ones you don't like?

If you put together a few zillionaires that believe the same, it's not hard to imagine they'd get together to come up with a plan to help Mother Nature along.

Here's a sentence that 'splains so much of AN discourse: Age gaps also made a difference in the ratings, with 74% of Democrats aged 65 and older having a fair or great amount of confidence in the media compared to just 31% of Democrats aged 18 to 29. https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/15/trust-media-historic-low/ Doesn't bode well for the MSM's future, nor for the Dems.

And it's showing in the historically low media confidence. Americans’ trust in the mass media has fallen to a record low leading up to the November election, according to a new survey released by Gallup Monday. Around 36% of those surveyed said that they have “no trust at all” in the mass media, while only 31% expressed a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence and 33% expressed “not very much” confidence, according to the Gallup survey. There's good news for old fart Dems: Democrats expressed the highest amount of confidence in the mass media being able to report news “fully, accurately and fairly,” with 54% saying they trust it, according to the survey. Age gaps also made a difference in the ratings, with 74% of Democrats aged 65 and older having a fair or great amount of confidence in the media compared to just 31% of Democrats aged 18 to 29. Not so good news for Dems (or the MSM) when the old farts die out... https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/15/trust-media-historic-low/ (Don't forget to click on the Gallup link in the article) God, it must be great living in that elder Dem echo chamber where 10x as many journalists report the news you like than report the news you don't like. It must be so much easier than living in the real world where we're confronted with news that may not conform to our wishes.

Dollars to donuts, it'll eventually come out that some of this happened in a pizza joint. And another conspiracy theory will become a spoiler alert.

If you have health or girth issues, sure. If you have F..U.. money, fine. When the company was paying, I rode in the front. (Though I'd have gladly taken the difference in cash and rode in cattle class) Most of my bad financial decisions in life started with a few drinks and the internal words "you can't take it with you", or my former favorite "you're only young once". At 67 year of age, I can't recall many decisions I regret to not spend that extra money. I have a lot of regrets over the times I splurged, for that fleeting feeling that lasted an instant in the scheme of things. Oh, the things I could do with that money (plus the years of interest) today.

Kinda confirms that the mRNA's aren't a vaccine in the traditional sense, and historical vaccine platitudes of warm and fuzzy with 30 years of history don't apply. They're an experimental genetic therapy. It remains to be seen how much longer that reality gets squelched.

One of the presidential candidates is promising to look into that epidemic. And it ain't Harris.

If I got busted for $7 of gambling, I'd be putting my mugshot on my Christmas cards to send to friends and relatives. What a hoot. We'd be laughing about it for years.

As much as I enjoy a good nap, the idea of paying $100-$200 an hour extra for a more comfortable seat and a marginally nicer meal just isn't on my list o' stuff I'm willing to spend my money on. I still recall shoveling dog poop for under $1 an hour back in the day. To pay 100x that for a nap? No thanks.

Seems like she don't care much about the lives of illegals, either. Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them — exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished — mostly into the hot desert, canyons or mountains west of El Paso, Texas. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-deaths-new-mexico-677a6b57e729ca076a0d12dba31c3b70 But that's a price she's willing to pay if they can swing some states purple or even blue...

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-protest-new-york-stock-exchange-6be77c4e273165f5b5eb98127a7bc836 https://www.rt.com/news/605732-pro-palestine-jewish-protest-israel-us-weapons/ I'll give you a hint. One of the sources names the organizers. Jewish Voices for Peace. The other one? Nope. I wonder if it's still anti-Semitism?

Kudos to Thailand for recommending it just to high risk groups. Back home, they're recommending it to all ages. As for me, I still haven't recovered from the debilitating effects of my 2nd Pfizer in March of 2021. So they'd have to hold a gun to my head to get a 3rd into me. Or any mRNA product, for that matter.

The Hur report had plenty, and the recommendation not to prosecute isn't binding on the next administration's DOJ. Add in the dirt that the House committee has uncovered (but can't possibly defeat a Dem wall against impeachment), and Biden's lawyers may have their work cut out for them. For years...

You caught me being lazy. I only mentioned Krakatoa, but there have been dozens of volcanic eruptions that caused (for example), the little ice age, the plagues of the bible, and other climate events. Here's just a few of the hundreds of links about how volcanoes, in these cases recent ones, have changed the climate. Some profoundly, others not so much. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255700466_Climate_effects_of_the_1883_Krakatoa_eruption_Historical_and_present_perspectives https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/joc.6958 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925385-000-krakatoa-eruption-cooled-the-world/ https://www.nature.com/articles/439675a https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/krakatoa-heralded-atmospheric-sciences-era-of-global-disaster-today-it-would-cool-world-climate-but-not-mitigate-it I couldn't find a link to the article I read that claims we're still recovering from the Little Ice Age. It's been long enough that it doesn't show up in my interweb history. So I'm not convinced by the science that climate change can be stopped by taking my money and giving it to someone else, or making me buy an EV, or windmills, or... or...

When you Google "own goal", that video should come up on the first page. Or maybe "under the bus".

Even if you ignore the blatant monetary corruption, I wonder how many times Biden has sat across the negotiating table from a world leader who had evidence that could put his kid in prison for life. I'm looking forward to the day he doesn't need to be impeached before they prosecute. They could have videos of Biden walking across the White House lawn with a severed head in one hand and a bloody machete in the other, and the Dems in the senate would have still voted against impeachment. Edit: And with Harris as the replacement, a lot of Repubs, too.

Sure beats renting to a foreigner, then not being able (or willing) to do the necessary immigration reporting.

Who's gatekeeping? It's a piece of data that helps me decide whether to interact with someone, and whether to take them seriously. You can use that info any way you want. I don't know about you, but I'd question the sincerity and motives if an old geezer like myself started posting on Teen Spirit blogs.

I think that article has more weasel words than Mrs. Heinlein would have let me get away with in 6th grade English Comp. verified evidence widespread significant very few cases scale that would influence results Edit: Did I mention, you failed to provide a source for your quote.

Yeah. Nothing says democracy like a cabal of powerful people, mostly from the left, changing the laws and controlling the flow of information to keep one candidate from getting elected. And the TIME article is them bragging about it.

Wouldn't it be a kick in the nuts if climate change opened up millions of square kilometers to human habitation and agriculture, like Greenland, Antarctica and the Sahara?

Nor do I claim to be. Just a first person data point (17 or 18 of them, actually), current up to 3 weeks ago. Not someone's guess, or someone else's experience from 5 years ago, and not something that someone quotes from an outdated website, as is often the case on these threads. Edit: I'd add that I can easily find a few oft quoted official looking websites that still claim that what I'm doing every month is not possible. They claim that the limit is 2 VE's a year, by land or (some of them) by air.

Later this week, I plan to do my 18th or 19th consecutive monthly visa exempt visit to Swampy. I'll post back if there are any issues. It's just my own experience, but it leads me to believe that it's not the number of VE entries that causes issues, at least not at BKK. It's either the pattern of stays, the total days in country, or the way the tourist dresses. (I'm only half kidding with the "dresses" comment) US citizen, 67 years old, worked in Thailand for years, but have not had a visa since Covid. 17 or 18 visa exempts in a row, once a month and I stay 4-8 days on each visit. YMMV.

Does Moo Deng hunt wabbits? I mean, pheasants?