John Drake

This sounds like a prime minister talking.

Just close the Department of Education for a start. It's not only useless, it's actually counterproductive.

Confiscation of all property and money any illegal has on their person or in a bank. RICO businesses caught hiring illegals. Frog march straight into prison politicians, such as the mayor of Denver, who promises to use his police force to resist illegals' deportation. RICO Mayorkis and every single government official responsible for flying and busing illegals from foreign countries into the US.

If Putin is going to threaten Ukraine's supporters with a nuclear attack, then Russia's supporters, China, North Korea, and Iran, should receive the exact same threat.

Talk about doing "no harm!" The status quo in government health, nutrition, medicare, pharma approval, and medical mandates has generated an overwhelming amount of harm over the past forty years. Just look at obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, all of which are gobbling up lives left and right in unhealthy America. Something needs to change. And it needs to change drastically from the status quo.

I'm pretty cheap about my utilities. I try to save as much as I can. Operating a fridge, a computer, a TV, and a couple fans only last month (only 2 days using the aircon at night), I was still stuck with a bill for 995 baht. Just a year and a half ago, the same sort of usage would have got me a bill for less than 800 baht. I keep a record of electrical units I use and I'm sure this is the case. Prayuth was much better for electricity prices.

However he may have blundered with insufficient insurance, risky riding, lack of money back home, I'd say these injuries are severe enough to generate some pity for him and hope for the best as well as maybe throwing in some money. He's going to live with horrible enough physical consequences without being lectured on inadequate insurance.

Good. Last thing needed is drunks on a train.

I see (or is it "saw" now?) the Guardian in my X feed all the time. Never paused to look at it, but I guess the algorithm figured I should be exposed to it. I think that's what the Blueskyers want to avoid, encountering any other opinion or point of view differing from their own. I tend to look at comments from several perspectives on X. I just ignored the Guardian because over time I stopped trusting their content. When a publication's stories become predictable before you even read them, it's time to look for new sources.

With a new administration, which is promising a Reciprocal Trade Act, the United States is going to slap tariffs on Thailand that match Thai tariffs on US goods. If Thailand reacts by increasing its own tariffs, the US will simply match. The days of the free ride and easy access to US markets are over for Thailand. The Thai government can take that "free trade" posture and shove it up the BRICS they want to join.

Easiest place to start is the Education Dept. Shut it down. Fire them all. It's not only useless, it is a part of the federal government that has seen objective analyses of its area of responsibility decline rapidly since its beginning. Then, move on to Justice and move out the time wasters, obstructionists, and DEI plants. Defense has too many generals and their toadies, too little ability to oversee and audit expenses. If an expense cannot be accounted for, people need to go to jail and the sum extracted form the next budget. And considering their disastrous performance over the past 50 years, State needs to be entirely dismantled, reconstructed, and overseas palaces such as the one in Bangkok sold off or rented out as condos to Russians and Chinese.

Elon Musk has centered his operations in Texas, not Silicon Valley.

Because the FDA and drug companies are always right and have your best interest at heart. From the list of withdrawn drugs. And don't tell me "withdrawn" somehow means the drug companies and FDA were doing their job. There are plenty of poison drugs on the list that Rezulin is on. ======== "Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert submitted the diabetes drug Rezulin for FDA review on July 31, 1996. The medical officer assigned to the review, Dr. John L. Gueriguian, cited Rezulin's potential to harm the liver and the heart, and he questioned its viability in lowering blood sugar for patients with adult-onset diabetes, recommending against the drug's approval. After complaints from the drugmaker, Gueriguian was removed on November 4, 1996, and his review was purged by the FDA.[8][9] Gueriguian and the company had a single meeting at which Gueriguian used "intemperate" language; the company said its objections were based on inappropriate remarks made by Gueriguian.[10] Parke-Davis said at the advisory committee that the risk of liver toxicity was comparable to placebo and that additional data of other studies confirmed this.[11] According to Peter Gøtzsche, when the company provided these additional data one week after approval, they showed a substantially greater risk for liver toxicity.[12] The FDA approved the drug on January 29, 1997, and it appeared in pharmacies in late March. At the time, Dr. Solomon Sobel, a director at the FDA overseeing diabetes drugs, said in a New York Times interview that adverse effects of troglitazone appeared to be rare and relatively mild.[13]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglitazone

The Guardian seems to pop up in my X-feed all the time. I never stop and look at it, however. It's entirely canned agitprop. Look, Fidel used to send me Granma back in the 60s, and it had more editorial freedom than the Guardian.

Things must change. That is what I want to see, and it appears to be that agents of change are being put in place. The country is in a mess, both domestically and internationally. The USA needs to get in shape, figuratively and literally. It will start with getting rid of the entrenched interests in food and pharma. Entire departments need to go. Americans are eating poison food and taking unsafe drugs.

Appointing Tulsi was good. But making RFKjr head of HHS is even better. I am happy.

The plans are already on the books. Sure, here you go.

Isn't the British government putting the squeeze on pensioners living in Britain by removing their heating subsidy? If they're willing to screw over the people living in the UK, imagine what they'll do to those living overseas.

Don't those solar panels contain metal contaminants? What happens if there are accidents and these panels get flushed to the bottom of the dams?

There are only so many big productions that Thailand can handle. Grand Elephant and Living Films are the big two production service companies. They're usually fully booked, especially during this time of year, when rainy season has ended. There are some second tier companies such as Greenlight that is pretty close to the other two, but it is usually booked up solid as well. After that, it's mainly boutique companies and small scale service providers. Kantana mainly does postpro these days, I think. JKN was supposed to build a lot of studios, but I don't know what its economic state is today after the Miss Universe fiasco. In other words, I don't see where there is room for any big expansion of Hollywood level productions.

The most fundamental way that the US rewards its friends and allies is with access to its markets. If you're going to align with China and BRICS and join in dedollarization, then you're not going to get easy access to US markets.

I went over to National Review to see how they were handling the Gaetz nomination. As expected, the last redoubt of Bushism is throwing hissy fits. I don't know much about Gaetz, but if NR hates, well, then . . . .

That's right Thailand, you're not going to be able to skirt US trade sanctions through Thai In Name Only companies that are essentially Chinese.

I don't disparage the lives of garbagemen. Their lives are just as valuable as yours and mine. There are already far too many "experts" out there who think by virtue of who they know, where they studied, and who their family is that it gives them a right to dispose of the lives and careers of people of every social status below theirs.

It's all the "qualified" people who get the head nodding that have put us in the mess we're in. Do not want more of the same.