Airalee

Wow. Impressive. I’ll bet you can also count. 🙄

The lady doth protest too much methinks.

They should ban cameras in the bar.

Notice how she doesn’t say what city she taught in? Funny how some of the cities that spend the most per capita have the worst test scores. Baltimore? New York City? “Across all grades, 26 percent of students in Baltimore City are proficient in English and Language Arts (ELA), while only 8 percent are proficient in math. Even Baltimore City’s “gifted and talented” learners lag behind. More than half of its advanced learners fail to score as proficient in math, and 29 percent score below grade-level in ELA. If the best and the brightest are performing so poorly, how about everyone else? As students advance through Baltimore schools, they appear to do progressively worse at math. While 17 percent of Baltimore City schools’ third-graders score at grade-level in math, only 3 percent of students are proficient by eighth grade—and among those 132 pupils, only one scored in the top category as a “distinguished leader,” having exceeded the state’s minimum proficiency requirements. At the same time, the share of all students scoring in the test’s lowest category (“beginning learner”) in math rose from 49 percent in third grade to 68 percent by eighth, with the share of exceptional learners sliding further. A full 40 percent of Baltimore’s 32 public and charter high schools saw not a single student achieve math proficiency on the 2022–23 exam. But it is not a matter of a few failing schools dragging down the totals. Just 14 schools managed to get half their students to grade-level proficiency in English, and not one reached that milestone in mathematics.” https://www.city-journal.org/article/are-baltimore-students-better-off-staying-home Teachers should be paid for performance. If their students can’t perform, why should they get fat pensions that enable them to retire overseas? They shouldn’t.

It’s not often that someone so successful and well off divulges so much of their financial situation. That’s because it”s rather gauche. At least you can afford some anger management therapy.

From the very few Swiss I have met here in Thailand…absolutely. They are also quite reserved so even commenting on gold threads like this (and the one previously posted) seems out of character.

And who owns the rights to that gold? Large gold miners that are publicly traded. Who owns the largest stakes in those miners? Institutional owners. And which country holds the majority of that institutional ownership? Not Canada.

Remember when the left universally decried dynasties such as the Bush family? Now, as shown in this thread, they champion them.

Your reply makes no sense. Some moron said “how have your gold holdings fared in your “home currency”” And I showed her that it has fared quite well in most major currencies. Are you saying it hasn’t? Saying that “buying gold supports 5e dollar” is wrong. In fact, it is more of a vote against the dollar. But hey….if you enjoy coming to the defense of morons…you do you. Birds if a feather and all.

Unfortunately, you seem to only be focused on the first half of “what they say”

No, they haven’t. China resumed buying this year. You were already informed of this in another thread. Why have you conveniently forgotten? Oh dear. You should really do your homework.

From what I understand, the Filipinos are paid less than the teachers from NES countries.

Quite telling that there is no reply from the “health professional” caught pushing mis/disinformation. It’s shameful. The myth will continue. Amazing how dishonest people are. The only people I knew wearing masks in my 14 years here were women who just had a nose job. Lived in Chiang Mai for almost 5 years. Not one Thai that I knew ever wore one….even during the burning season.

For fun….google half of what he writes. He keeps everything he writes in a file to cut and paste into future posts. Leftists are weird.

Deja Vu…🙄

Beef

Ummmm 🤨

Blueberries with heavy cream are my favorite. I like jicama too even though it’s not a fruit.

B+ for histrionics. Needs some work to get it up to JT level.

He was the laughing stock of the housing bubble (great financial crisis) amongst all the economic bloggers.

Burn, Loot & Murder

LOL The US imports approximately 10-12% of its beef. It exports the same amount. Only 12% of the imported beef comes from Australia. So…Australia supplies 1.2%-1.44% of the beef consumed in America. A big nothingburger.

No. In fact, oddly, I haven’t seen much. I just scrolled down the whole CNBC, Marketwatch and Yahoo Finance pages. There was only one small article in yahoo. The others….nothing. Please explain. Keep it simple. I looked up technical indicators for gold and it seems like many experts have been screaming “overbought” since gold was above $1700. (See attached screenshot below for one example) I’ve watched YouTube videos before when first wanting to understand trading on technical indicators. Wow! There are so many ways. The most common denominator was that it was usually some gormless neck bearded weirdo sitting behind some $100 Office Depot desk set up in his apartment bedroom or moms basement. I googled this too. I saw lots of articles from June/July last year about China pausing their gold purchases but nothing else. I also see that China resumed buying gold and has been a net purchaser for the last 4 months. I do find it interesting however that the Swiss National Bank sold half of its gold reserves between 2000 and 2005 when gold was below $500.

Facial tats, piercings and a bad attitude is not an example of a strong woman. It shows a woman in need of help. This is a strong black woman….