John Drake

Democrats and Republicans have an even bigger problem. https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/rfk-jr-super-bowl-ad-2024 https://av24.org/SuperBowl/

Only one way to solve and the government isn't going to like it: cancel all debts.

Just screened a few favorites and wondered which of them is the best. Lots of India related ones, such as Jewel in the Crown, The Far Pavilions, Heat and Dust, Passage to India and such. But a few less known were set in our area during the Malayan Emergency, such as The Planter's Wife and The 7th Dawn. Not forgetting The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, either, which, although an American film, probably is more remembered than all of the above.

I was invited by the Thai government to come here and work. Upon retirement I decided to stay. A "wify" (I guess you mean "wifey" and not "wifi") had nothing to do with it.

Putin essentially gave the same "campaign speech" he's been giving for the past 25 years. He only impressed people because he is being compared to two of the most inept and mentally incompetent US presidential candidates in history. Most every American president I can think of, beginning with TR and going through Wilson, Hoover, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton could have held forth just as articulately as Putin and with even better command of the facts and truth. The problem is that US presidential expectations have completely bottomed out since GWBush.

The election America needs is between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis. Two governors of two large states who can articulate their ideologies, stand on working precedent, and debate each other without falling off the podium. With 2020 and 2024 the USA will have had the worst two major party candidates in history running against each other. I will vote for RFKjr.

She looks like Olive Oyl.

And yet in another Wikipedia entry it shows that only 8600 Thais have gone to China to live with their "brothers," while 320,000 have gone to the USA alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_people

That is one ugly dough faced photo.

This is one of the cultural festivities that makes Thailand interesting to me. I enjoy CNY and other Chinese influenced celebrations that have been filtered through into Thailand.

"I am an elderly man ... I know what the hell I'm doing." "Get off my lawn!"

I can remember (just barely) when things were the other way around and JFK's callow youth was a concern.

Even on CNN, in the aftermath of the press conference, all the anchors and hosts were talking about Biden's lack of mental acuity, very little about his non-prosecution or even the differences the special counsel outlined between Biden and Trump and their classified documents case. What makes it so damaging for Biden is that it reinforces and gives authority to what was already perceived as his main weakness.

Biden's performance at the press conference ended up being the news story. Not the special counsel's report.

It's intriguing watching this all play out. You have Trump and all his multiple indictments and they have turned out to be politically advantageous for him (DeSantis was ahead in the polling before the indictments, I think). And now you have Biden getting "cleared" and as a result of his press conference it has turned into a political calamity.

Three. RFKjr

Maybe condos.

Why no American influencers, then?

Personally, I thought the article was a knockout.

Jimmy Carter was diagnosed and treated for brain cancer nine years ago. He announced he was going into hospice care a year ago. And he's still living. Don't know what Charles' cancer is, but getting an extra decade of life seems worth it to me.

I would hate to live in a Chinese dominated condo (actually, I would dislike being in any condo). Seeing Chinese tourists troop in by the hundreds in a hotel-by-any-other-name condo would be my worst nightmare. You'd be stuck there.

Might buy them instead of pyjamas. Pyjamas here are expensive.

Did Thai clothing even include pants until Westerners brought them here?

I seem to remember that the last year or so ago a Thai shopping mall came under scrutiny and complaints from Thai manufacturers of consumer goods because the shelves of all the stores were stocked with low quality goods from China. Never did see a follow up.

All Thailand could think about was how much timber, chicken, durian, and pork it was going to export to China. It never factored in that China would dump a tsunami of cheap manufactured goods on Thailand. Exporting raw goods while receiving manufactured goods in return is what happens with colonies.