John Drake

What's your favorite character from Dickens?

Is that Nadler who is the only one standing on the right?

Halloween is a fun opportunity for people to gather around and do things other than going to bars. Watch horror movies, for example, something Thais are good at producing. Back before covid, when I was still teaching some university classes part-time, you could see students walking around campus in costumes. And if Lotus and others use it for commercial advantage? Okay, they make the stores colorful for a few days, as they do at Christmas and Chinese New Year. I always enjoy that. They may even put a few holiday related foods on sale. Even in Thailand, Halloween can be a seasonal gateway to cooler days, crisper mornings, and clear skies. I'm happy to see Thailand celebrate it.

Again, easy enough to determine if she worked anywhere during 1983. Beyond that, if she did, and then it should be recorded on her SSA earnings history, it will also be easy to deduce from the total amount earned what her average hourly wage was and how that compares to McDonald's hourly wage for new employees covered over the summer vacation time period. Of course, it could be that she didn't work there long enough for the manager to file her paperwork, for her to earn any measurable amount of money, and therefore have any deductions.

Just cut them off. No benefits at all for non-citizens. No free housing. No free food. No cash. No telephones. No health coverage. Nothing. They'll leave of their own accord soon enough.

If you login to My Social Security and go to the homepage, at the bottom there is a link to My Earnings History. It doesn't provide any employer's name (I don't remember if the yearly hardcopy I used to receive did provide that), but it does show income during any given year. So, it will not show if Harris worked at McDonald's in 1983 but it will show if she worked at any time during 1983 for any business required to deduct social security. Easy enough for her to show that she at least worked somewhere, if she did, during that year, I would think.

Barbara Jordan.

No, it's just trashy.

I agree with you, there. The entire political edifice looks to be stuffed with degenerates.

This is really degenerate and scummy on Trump's part. Not to mention stupid. It's the sort of comment that can only lose you votes, especially among swing voters. Poor judgment, bad instincts, and yet another step Trump has contributed in making the culture cruder than it was before he opened his mouth.

The tip of the iceberg? Robert Malley. https://nypost.com/2024/09/18/us-news/disgraced-iran-envoy-robert-malley-may-have-participated-in-classified-white-house-organized-call-after-security-clearance-was-suspended-state-dept-ig-says/ Ariane Tabatabai. https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/pentagon-aide-called-iran-spy-keeps-security-clearance/

Most people don't like Mitch. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/mitch-mcconnell-favorability

Seems to be a lot of Iranian agents embedded in US Intelligence agencies.

The White House may realize it, too. The Energy Department is pushing out guaranteed government loans for biofuels before things change. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gevo-calumet-shares-jump-us-220251259.html

Went down like a sack of potatoes.

What is revealing about the 32 days incident is what it reveals about her understanding of what she had just said. When the teleprompter went out, she was stuck on the last two words she had just read off the screen. If you had asked her what she had just said prior to getting stuck, she couldn't have told you. It's the worst sort of vacuous brain jerk. This used to be said about local evening news anchors. They, too, couldn't remember the stories they had just read on air. Just (and they) are just a face, with somebody else behind them operating them like automatons. Elon's new robots have more individual awareness.

Nobody trusts gold from China. It's all fake tungsten filled bars. They're selling themselves fake gold.

Don't do it. Send US investment to the Philippines, not a country like Thailand that is helping disguised Chinese companies evade American sanctions through starting up front companies in Thailand.

What is the status of Chinese in Sihanoukville? Are they still there? Or have they left it in ruins and pulled out in significant numbers?

Trying to justify Thailand's anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, pro-Iran, pro-Russia votes in the UN?

I thought I read that Sinwar tried to escape dressed as a woman. Sort of like, Santa Anna

This is difficult. Who do I dislike more, Tim Cook or Europe?

"in the interim we had a good exchange"--quoting Baier. I don't hear him say what you claim he said.

That link has the ugliest picture of Kamala Harris I've ever seen.

In all these debates and interviews, who has been the most sober, knowledgeable, detailed, even toned, and interested in the issues facing America. Just one answer: Bret Baier. Bret Baier should be president.