RocketDog

I'm pleased that I was the first one to respond with a laughing out loud emoticon. I doubt I will be the last.

Agreed. And clearly he is putting his time to good use as well.

Trump has never met a crime or a criminal he doesn't like; it's just a matter of time with him. And I can provide links to prove it!

My thanks to Charlie for opening this topic. In an earlier post I mentioned that PAWS was located in Huahin. but that was a rough approximation. It's actually in Pranburi right now and moving a little bit farther north to the new property as soon as possible. I encourage any dog or cat lover to donate time or money or both to this cause. As Will Rogers said, if there are no dogs in heaven I want to go where they went.

I think you meant to say you don't trust that the financial systems won't go bust. In any case I think it's best to assume that to some extent or another they will, probably sooner rather than later. Metals may not be considered an investment but they sure as hell represent insurance. At this point in my life I'm much more interested in retaining my assets than growing them. As hard as I've tried I can come up with no more defensive strategy than to put most of my excess Capital into precious metals which are tangible, and if stored correctly, always available to you. Any middle man or institution between you and your assets represents a counterparty risk. In Thailand it is especially easy to buy and sell precious metals anonymously and I'm thankful for that.

You are of course correct in your first two sentences. The root of the problem appears in your third sentence. After being here for 7 years and now tired of pondering the problem I have concluded that the Thai culture does not want to do better; they are satisfied to regularly lose family members to needless death and injury. Every culture faces such decisions and lives accordingly. As visitors here we have no choice but to accept the danger of living in such a culture as we can not change it. When anywhere within sight of a road, path,sidewalk, or trail it is wise to assume that every vehicle approaching you intends to do you bodily harm. Of course this is seldom true but it still happens because the Thai people collectively choose not to change. If the risk is not acceptable then you have the option of never leaving your domicile or just leave the country. Other than to pass the time there is no reason to waste any emotion on such reports......the Thai people certainly don't.

From starting my first job in 1974 I started saving for retirement. I assume that USA Social Security would never be there for me when I needed it. I was wrong about that and I'm getting $2,800 a month from Social Security now but still I don't expect it to last. I retired at 67 full retirement age , and immediately came to Thailand and have been here ever since. I know some expats who retired in their early fifties and are now worried about money. So they were having a good time here in Thailand for more than 12 years while I was still working. They made a decision and took their choice just like I did. I didn't want to worry about money during my entire retirement so the decision was easy for me. I will say that I enjoyed my career quite a bit and was satisfied to wait until 67 as my earnings every year were going up. I guess if you hate your job that makes a difference. So I'm very glad that I saved more than I could need for the next 15 years that I expect to live. Anybody who depends on the State for their retirement is taking a big gamble IMO. When you take a gamble you must always be prepared to lose.

PAWS also does a very active adoption service and places many stray animals in New homes.

I think the answer to your question would be obvious if you thought about it for even a few seconds and did a few more seconds of introspection and then a few more seconds talking to your buddies who plan to vote for him. If that doesn't fill in the picture for you then nothing will.

PAWS RESCUE is based in HUAHIN and I've been contributing to them monthly for several years now. It is by far the best solution for the stray dogs. They really need some contributions now because they're setting up a new center after they were forced to leave their current location.

Apparently discernment is not one of your strong points

This entire thread is a waste of time. Trump gets up every morning and does whatever comes to his head the first second he's awake. there is no Rhyme or Reason to it. All predictions about what he will do are nothing but smoke and mirrors, even to himself. The man's mind is a sieve. It has become so clogged with detritus such sharks, electrocution, windmills, shower heads, haitians, flies, etc that he simply can't form coherent thoughts anymore.

Who needs in depth? I think his comment pretty well summed it up.

I didn't vote in the 1888 or 1876 elections either, thank the gods

Agreed on all counts. I out two layers of fiberglass insulation in my ceiling and it made a HUGE difference inside.

Well. Then it is incontravertible evidence. Wait. I know a guy who was vaccinated and didn't get covid. Oh my. Such a puzzling conundrum.

So you say.

My house has tile roofs also. They are applied to a metal framework without any screws or adhesive of any kind. Thus they are held on to the framework strictly by their own weight. For my house most of the roof is at a 45 or more degrees slope and that keeps the rain from blowing up under the tiles. However, this pitch of the roof over the kitchen is much lower perhaps only 15°. It did end up leaking frequently when we got heavy rains . I ended up having a roofer come out and replace the roof over the kitchen with a metal framework that he then put metal roofing over. It has now been 2 years and has never leaked a drop.

According to your link there were 1130 accidents per day and later in the article they said 27% of them were brake failures which works out to 305 brake failures per day. You are correct and the number is actually higher than you quoted and I stand satisfied with the information you provided. Thank you very much. I'm Amazed

Given a chance Trump will make voting itself meaningless. Your choice.

They should be thankful they are alive to vote.

Bauxite is common ore. Aluminum is congealed electricity. Takes a lot to refine it. Ultimately recyclable though. The earth didn't change but electricity became more abundant, until recently. Bitcoin is also congealed electricity but exists only in people's minds, much like fiat currency.

120 per day? I'd like to see some supporting for that statistic.

So you're into fantasy literature.

OP, the answer is simple. Any institution or human effort based on truth,honesty, and transparency will suffer from leadership of anyone whose entire career and business is based on lies. Compulsive liars offer nothing to anybody in ANY endeavor.