DaddyWarbucks

That is probably due to the dysfunctional nature of US law enforcement vis-a-vis illegal immigrants. The labor market is wide open nowadays... and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Dr. Fauci should have been replaced a long time ago before he became a lightening-rod for challenges to gov't health policies. The acrimonious exchanges that resulted did no credit to either Fauci himself or the groups who were pushing their agendas. The Chief Medical Advisor to the President should have diplomatic as well as medical skills. Appearance and mannerisms count for a lot also. Fauci looks like he could have been sent by Central Casting to play Dr. Death.

Plausible deniability abounds for all the usual suspects in this targeted killing that seemingly went wrong. cui bono and who does it most often?

Your post and the one you replied to nail Thaksin's cojones to the floor, so no need for repetition about economic crimes. Those of us who lived here during his time in power will remember some inconvenient facts that the Kool-Aid drinkers either don't know or choose to ignore. The egregious corruption of his administration pales beside the drug war massacres, one of which resulted in 2,873 Thais dead in three months, from February to April 2003. The victims included whole families, women, children and old people. That was from just one relatively short period of time. How many died in total on his watch is open to conjecture. When UN sec-gen Kofi Anan nominated a rapporteur to investigate these gross human roghts abuses, Thaksin's angry response was "the UN is not my father". He will never regain power in Thailand. A civil war would result if he did.

...and not a moment too soon since they recently lost their backhanders from the ganja trade.

Spot on. Left-wing behaviour is lemming-like and always has been. The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 showed clearly how quickly the narrative changed... then changed back again when it was expedient. Orthodoxy means everything to these people - especially low-class Brits - who start taking in socialism along with heir mother's milk.

What a motley crew of leftist loons has come to dominate forum topics dealing with political, social, and racial issues. Is it any wonder the US is taking a hard right turn? Your cockamamie ideas when put into practice produce social chaos - just look at the rot that has eaten the hearts out of venerable Eastern Seaboard cities. How are the crime rates now that "Turn 'em loose" Bruce style DAs are in power? This provokes a negative reaction from saner folk and pushes them further towards the right. The boogie-man is out to getcha... fascists multiplying like pod-people. You <deleted> brought it down on all of us.

She has the instincts of a politician. Like Slick Willy she moved in the right circles from the get-go.

That's the crux of the problem... after the fall of their empire they did indeed ",,,end up looking more like us."

Another feel-good article by one of the many who want to see Ukraine thrash Russia militarily. It's way past time to ask who benefits from continuing conflict in the region.

Over 100 years of incessant propaganda isn't going to be overcome anytime soon.

The word "dysfunctional" seems to be paired to so much in South Africa lately. Is fundamental police work beyond them? If their social and economic policies result in uncontrolled lawlessness the result will be bad for all of them. It will be authoritarian government of some sort to put an end to the anarchy and ultraviolence.

Is the US Consulate in Chiang Mai following new guidelines in this case? 'During crisis cock-ups keep schtum. Whatever you do, don't get caught telling the truth."

Migration of enslaved Africans northward started long before 1865. The Philadelphia Quaker Isaac T. Hopper in the very early 1800s began what was to become the Underground Railroad that fugitive slaves used to travel north to what they fondly believed was the Promised Land. The reality proved to be quite different and they soon entered a new kind of servitude. The post Civil War period saw them essentially no better off than they were before. Southern chain gangs and Jim Crow are often rightly criticised but the north was in many ways worse for them and the weather was cold to boot. New York draft riots during the Civil War targeted blacks and as late as 1906 there was a Congolese pygmy named Ota Benga confined in the Monkey House at the Bronx Zoo. Let the south beat that if it can for sheer humiliation.

That's spot on. Partisan flacks dominate this topic. The aggressive nastiness with which they promote their "facts" and talking points soon becomes tiresome.

Didn't the Royal Family recently take in one from Compton? But I don't think it worked out too well.

Get up off your doots and fully legalize Ganja. Let Yaba go back to being what it used to be - Yah-mah - a stimulant for racehorses.

Just what Thailand needs, more useless military hardware. Those hi-tech planes can join the aircraft carrier docked in Sattahip as trophies to stupidity and corruption. How's that submarine deal going, I wonder?

Good point, but it might not apply in this case. A highly profitable long-running scam, it certainly wasn’t impeded by low IQs and/or impulse-control issues. This lot could be any of the flotsam that wash up on these shores.

Let’s hope so. They cleaned up Lower Suky PDQ.

If Norman Vincent Peale is the “granddaddy” of positive thinking then Emile Coué is the great granddaddy. Much of what Peale taught was learned from Coué and his books based upon experiences with patients at Troyes and later at his well-known clinic at Nancy.

That explains the inclusion of the Queen, but leaves questions about many of the others. A rum lot for the most part.

...and what about the rampage through the Middle East, flossie? Who was cheerleading for that?

Quite so. Except maybe Thonglor’s Finest who call them “In-see Dahm” since “Operation Black Eagle”on LowerSuky a few years ago.

So true. The family that preys together stays together.