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This can of worms has been opened and scrutinised and Trump and his Foundation have been found guilty and have admitted their Fraud ........ Trump and his foundation were just forced to admit their fraud. Now the IRS needs to act. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-his-foundation-were-just-forced-admit-their-fraud-now-ncna1081906 Donald J. Trump Pays Court-Ordered $2 Million for Illegally Using Trump Foundation Funds Trump Ordered to Pay Eight Separate Charities $250,000 Each https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-court-ordered-2-million-illegally-using-trump-foundation Sorry if it is a bit late, but had some workmen installing two new aircons so couldn't get to the computer!

Well he started by stealing from a Charity..............

25????? On November 29th, 1864, while John Evans was governor of Colorado and territorial superintendent of Indian Affairs, a Cheyenne and Arapaho village along Sand Creek in the Colorado Territory was attacked by United States soldiers. Around 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people were killed, most of them women, children and elders. The Sand Creek Massacre remains one of the worst atrocities committed by US soldiers in history and remains in the recent memory of Cheyenne and Arapaho people. https://www.northwestern.edu/native-american-and-indigenous-peoples/about/sand-creek.html Also......"at around 6:30, the soldiers would open fire amongst the lodges of the innocent and unaware Arapaho and Cheyenne civilians. Over the course of eight hours the American troops killed around 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people composed mostly of women, children, and the elderly. During the afternoon and following day, the soldiers wandered over the field committing atrocities on the dead before departing the scene on December 1st". You seem a little light on facts........probably skewed to fit in with your political leanings?

Well, if that's what you're focusing on, then you totally missed the point of the film because it wasn't about Buffy Saint Marie, it was about the Sand Creek Massacre by Colonel Chivington and his men – – women and children slaughtered, raped and mutilated, with many body parts removed. A sad chapter in American history and nothing whatsoever to do with Buffy Saint Marie.

And you missed this as well......................trump and co are rotten to the core "The last of three men convicted in a “We Build the Wall” fundraising fraud scheme was sentenced to more than five years in prison Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Timothy Shea "stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to line his own pockets," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York said in a statement. Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist in the Trump administration, was also charged in the scheme. Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty, was pardoned by Trump in the final hours of his presidency in 2021 and never stood trial.

Trump...............promising jobs for the everyday working American, yet getting the MAGA hats made in China!! Then selling NFTs depicting someone clearly not him, then there was the Build the Wall scam, taking money from his supporters, which never went towards building a wall. He plays to the naiive, the dumb and his favourite folk.......the poorly educated. That is a low life grifter!

What a load of old cobblers!!!

Well some of the USA's top CEOs are on record as saying this....... Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs this week, multiple attendees told CNBC. “Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said one CEO who was in the room. Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” reported. AND Trump met with at least 80 CEOs on Thursday to promise tax cuts and scaled-back business regulations if he’s elected president. Among those present were Apple CEO Tim Cook and the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America. Trump spoke for about an hour, during which he rambled nonsensically, throwing off those in the room, according to sources who shared details of the meeting After Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, his legal team and his defenders lodged a frequent talking point. “This was a rape claim, this was a rape case all along, and the jury rejected that — made other findings,” his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said outside the courthouse. A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood. I can explain it to you BUT I can't understand it for you Anyway by your responses it can be seen that you are the type of supporter that trump likes (look it up) so no use trying to talk sense to those sort of folks!!

He wouldn't be able to spell the word "genius" let alone know what it meant, and as the invited CEOs at one of his meetings said, using various descriptions, "he doesn't know what he's talking about", "the man is dumb", "he can't keep on subject about anything".....and so on, and those quotes are from industry leaders in the USA! And Trump also likes to sidle up to the Christians, waving a Bible or two, even though he hasn't got a Christian bone in his body and taking that little further, the Bible states, "By their deeds you will know them" so by his deeds, so he will be known – – – grabbing pu$$y – rapist – convicted felon – multi-bankrupt (depriving working Americans of what was owed to them) – stealing from a charity – deeply in debt – compulsive liar – adulterer So this man you hold in such high esteem is a lowlife crook and folks who support him have been drinking deeply of the MAGA cult Kool-Aid – – that wouldn't be you would it!!!!! You're too smart to support someone with a record like this, surely? I will back Kamala Harris because she is none of the above..

Still doesn't alter the fact that Trump is a reprehensible, low life grifter and convicted felon who is extremely dumb with over 10 bankrupted companies to his name.....no amount of money can change that!!! Thank god for daddie's millions .

I see you have become the AN media and entertainment person, endeavouring to give us sane and rational posters a good laugh for the day – – thank you for your efforts, but next time choose some truths to post, because the man is a "sandwich short of a picnic" or as an American politician said, "an egg short of an omelette". I particularly liked his anti-abortion stance whereby he wanted to stop abortions, even after the baby had been born – – yeah right! A self labelled stable genius, no less!!! LOL

I recently stumbled upon a comedy series which I'd never heard of before, so thought I would give it a try and was so pleased that I did because some parts of it were very funny. The name of it was, "The Thin Blue Line" and it was released on British television in 1995/96, and it was written by Ben Elton and starred Rowan Atkinson, amongst others. IMO, one of the funniest comedy series I've seen in years . PS. Series Two is the funniest (IMO).

I downloaded and watched a movie which I first saw around 1970 in the UK, called, "Soldier Blue" and back then it was considered very violent, although it graphically portrayed what actually happened, and the song "Soldier Blue" by Buffy Sainte-Marie, got into the UK charts. The movie still resonated with me and there is no way that I or anyone could condone the wholesale slaughter and massacre of unarmed women and children by the US cavalry. However at the time it was released some American critics labelled it as "anti-American", can you believe, when apart from the actors holding the story together, the slaughter, dismemberment, rape and horrendous use of body parts was true as was recorded at the time. After the massacre Colonel Chivington declared it a victory that everyone should be proud of, however after some investigation into this horrendous slaughter, the following was stated by the US government: – "As to Colonel Chivington, the committee can hardly find fitting terms to describe his conduct. Wearing the uniform of the United States, which should be the emblem of justice and humanity; holding the important position of commander of a military district, and therefore having the honor of the government to that extent in his keeping, he deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would have disgraced the veriest savage among those who were the victims of his cruelty". After the actual details of the massacre became widely known, the United States federal government sent a blue ribbon commission whose members were respected by the Indians, and the Treaty of the Little Arkansas[69] was signed in 1865. It promised the Indians free access to the lands south of the Arkansas River, excluded them from the Arkansas River north to the Platte River, and promised land and cash reparations to the surviving descendants of Sand Creek victims. However, the treaty was abrogated by Washington less than two years later, all major provisions were ignored, and instead, the Medicine Lodge Treaty reduced the reservation lands by 90 percent, located in much less desirable sites in Oklahoma. Later government actions further reduced the size of the reservations!!!!!

Just love this post and it shows just how low RFKjr will sink. Maybe the worm ate more than we know!!..... Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the worm that ate part of his brain…… I know what you’re thinking. Since I ate part of the brain and live within it, I must be just a shill for Kennedy, somehow complicit in his political ambitions. Implicit in all the gossip about me was that I somehow contributed to Kennedy’s erratic behaviour and outlandish beliefs.

Fired up and ready to go to the toilet by the looks of things. LOL.

I have sent you PM concerning a Will in English and Thai languages.

I use Messenger and it is free, also use it to call folks in Australia and New Zealand.

Urolift is one of the procedures I investigated when I thought my prostate had "regrown" after my TURP at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne some 15 years ago, and from all of the research I did, it would certainly be one which I would choose if I had my time again, but of course it wasn't available in those days. There was another thread on here which dealt with the Rezum procedure and the feedback was, should I say, pretty average with some good stories and some not so good stories, so it may pay to try and find that before you proceed with anything @p414 As things stand at the moment neither the TURP, nor the Urolift would be any good for me because I have to self-catheter twice a day in order to empty my bladder which has stopped functioning and even the best urologist at Bumrungrad does not know how to fix it. Whilst not exactly painful, it is a little uncomfortable and one has to be totally sure that everything is clean and sterilised before proceeding. Good luck with whatever you decide.

Hmmm, hansgruber, I think you are about right with that comment, and I will agree with the fact that "if it does it's always for the worst". I can't think of much that has improved over the years I've been here, if anything, and certainly there are areas which have become worse, if not pitiful now: – – The heavy traffic which is nose to tail on some of the roads. – The condition of the roads themselves, which has become downright dangerous in places esp for m/c drivers. – The policing which was always poor, but is now laughable to non-existent, and this allows poorly maintained vehicles on the road, motorcycle drivers with no helmets (both Thai and farang) and downright dangerous drivers. – Patong Hill, after the slip was repaired, coming from Kathu to Patong is a dangerous joke because once it rains the Toyota passenger vans cannot get any traction and slip back onto the cars behind, and sometimes skew sideways. Of course poor driving techniques don't help one bit. – The tour buses are full of ill mannered Chinese who can make life a misery when trying to shop. Visa free trip? However, one thing which seems to have improved is the fact that in talking to a Tuk Tuk driver to ascertain the cost of a trip from one side of Patong to the beach road, he told me that the cost of every trip within Patong was now 200 baht, which surprised me and is a far cry from being ripped off in the past for a short trip!! A bright spot in the darkness here!

I decided to watch, "A Very English Scandal" again, mainly because after my concussion I could not remember much about it! So pleased that I did because it was very enjoyable and the acting by both Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw was excellent, and it resonated because I was in the UK at the time when this occurred and there was a standing joke/retort amongst our group of guys and it was: – "bite the pillow Norman".

No problem with answering that, and I don't believe you are being rude, but the motorbike taxi driver did a runner whilst I was unconscious and I don't remember even getting back to my room, even though I must have done somehow. So in a nutshell, no way to claim insurance even if I wanted to! My own health insurance does not cover outpatient treatment, so I paid for everything myself. And for the record I do have a car, but I had been out to a restaurant with friends and had a few drinks (not drunk) and never like to drive when I have been drinking, so the motorbike taxi seemed the best bet as it has done for many years in the past – – but not this time. And thank you for your good wishes.

Oh dear, another mention of the "deep state" means that someone has partaken of the MAGA Kool-Aid conspiracy theory nonsense, so no point in reading any more of their posts.........Naive or poorly educated; both of which trump prefers. "According to an American political conspiracy theory, the deep state is a clandestine network of members of the federal government (especially within the FBI and CIA), working in conjunction with high-level financial and industrial entities and leaders, to exercise power alongside or within the elected United States government. In 2020, many conspiracy theories circulated during the coronavirus pandemic partly because of the increased anxiety, larger number of people staying at home, and greater focus on the Internet and social media outlets.[12][13] One such conspiracy that proliferated from the 2020 Presidential election was QAnon. Opinion polling done in 2017 and 2018 suggests that approximately half of all Americans believe in the existence of an American deep state". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States#:~:text=According%20to%20an,United%20States%20government.

I had something similar four months ago when the motorbike taxi driver flipped his motorbike with me on the back, going up a steep concrete drive. The result was a broken coccyx for me as well as severe concussion which affected my memory and balance quite markedly. Fortunately a doctor at the Bangkok Phuket hospital managed to "rearrange the crystals" which are apparently at the base of the skull and are responsible for balance, and I got back to about 90% after that, but still have the occasional "spell". It's now a few months on and I still get an occasional dizzy spell, and some days just feel so very tired. According to the doctors, rest is of paramount importance, for both my broken coccyx in the concussion. On the concussion, my memory has started to come back now, but not completely. Good luck with your recovery/recuperation.