JingerBen

"You may be right I may be crazy Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for Turn out the light Don't try to save me You may be wrong for all i know But you may be right Now think of all the years you tried to find someone to satisfy you I may be as crazy as you say If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way", Go Trump! Nixon and Henry the K only feigned madness in foreign policy. You're the real deal. Make America Great Again.

Funny you should say that about the Palestinians. It is exactly what the British rulers said about the American colonists in 1776. If the Israelis don't get rid of the radical meshugas in their government and give the Palestinians a fair deal, and do it soon, the weight of international condemnation will become crushing - as it was with Apartheid South Africa - and the Zionist enterprise will collapse like a house of cards.

Individuals and demographics who are widely hated usually do a good job of bringing it on themselves. A case in point here.

Here's your new ideal of beauty, Thailand.

You have "re-created" it as what exactly? ASEAN NOW ?

The only "Strategy" Thaksin and his corrupt clan has ever followed is promoting populist schemes that keep them in power while amassing riches beyond the dreams of avarice.

What a load of codswallop. The local authorities are totally incompetent. Nothing will change until they are replaced by people who can effectively control the wildfires and crack down on agricultural burning in their localities.

The local authorities are totally incompetent. Nothing will change until they are replaced by people who can fight these wildfires effectively and crack down on the agricultural burning in their localities,

From Thais?... Not a chance - St. Patricks Day means less than nothing to them. From the Irish bar owners?... It's a possibility, but not probable. The Irish and the Dutch, They don't amount to much, but I'd rather have the Irish than the goddamn Dutch.

A tough guy with street smarts joins the team to help Trump clean out the Augean Stables. What a contrast this lot is to the limp-wristed woke libs who have dominated Washington for so long.

By all accounts a nasty piece of work. Her past exploits have included financial misconduct as well as violence on more than one occasion. Do the Shins really know who they are bringing onboard?

This Alphabet Soup turned into a stinking gumbo a long time ago. Time to throw it all out and provide some basic and fundamental protections for what is done in private by consenting adults. Promoting a perverted agenda is no longer wanted by the majority of people anywhere in the world where they have a voice to oppose it.

Weasel. Whatever he says from now on will be judged with this spineless flip-flop in mind.

+1 for The Duke's Iron Bridge. You didn't mention pizza. IM [not so] HO it is the Gold Standard in CM. Not quite comparable to what you get in Little Italy; Court St. in Brooklyn; or Arthur Ave. in the Bronx, but it is very good and has been for many years now. That said, I'm always glad to try another place. Any suggestions?

Good points that would be hard to contradict. My own experience with them has been that the majority of expats here seem rather more intelligent than the average Faranglander. One of the earlier posts on this thread described the disinclination to learn Thai as "willful ignorance." I think that nails it.