John Drake

Populations don't just have to suck it up. They can tear it all down. See Sri Lanka. That is why controlling electricity prices is important and the right thing to do.

Don't care who is responsible. I'm always happy to see my electricity rates restrained. And this will help a lot of Thai people who live on the edge.

And perhaps a failure to spot the big winner in all this. Perhaps. That would be Ron DeSantis who just might get Trump cleared out of his path to the nomination by this investigation and/or any resulting indictment. He gets Trump moved out of the way and simultaneously inherits a super energized base. All this goes to show, btw, just what a lazy incompetent man Trump really was. Too lazy to supervise these 15 boxes and their remnants, which apparently were not returned. Too lazy in his appointments of Wray, Milley, and even some unsteady Supreme Court justices. Trump is just a bad executive. DeSantis does not seem to share any of his weaknesses.

The interesting thing politically is that this cancels out the supreme court abortion ruling as far as energizing voter bases. The abortion ruling was set to bring Democrats out of the woodwork, although the Kansas vote may have mollified some. Now, with the Mar a Lago raid, I would imagine Trump supporters would crawl over broken glass to get to the polls. I'm really interested to see which of these two motivations wins out.

He tried to overthrow the government by doing nothing, you say?

At one point, I remember reading about a Chinese-only city to be constructed in the Eastern Economic Corridor. That was six or seven years ago.

Look at someone the wrong way and you'll get Covid. Now transmitted by line of sight.

I'll take your word for it. But I always thought of welfare as something that was means tested. Thus Medicaid would be welfare, but Medicare would not. But okay.

Has the branch re-opened this week?

Food out. Chinese construction gangs in.

Another topic says there is a shortage of Thai workers for hotels and tourist spots in Thailand. So there should at least be some work for them, even if it pays a pittance compared to S. Korea.

I looked several years (14) ago and I thought it was $1000. Could easily have been wrong. I think Mexico is a good place to live.

Where are retirees living outside their own countries eligible for welfare?

Is it the case that you only need $1000 per month from Social Security to get permanent residence in Mexico?

Recent news articles indicate that California millennials are moving to Mexico, driving up rents and property prices, demanding service in their own language, and ghettoizing several historical neighborhoods. I used to want to go to Mexico, too. Still would consider Cuernavaca and Aguascalientes but for the influx of corporate and digital nomads. Now, who's going to Russia at number 17?

A report I saw said that the people coming out of the building with fires erupting all over them were burning because of the foam insulation catching fire and dripping on them. It wasn't their clothes on fire but liquified foam.

Why shouldn't I or anyone else know? Is there some reason you think some people don't need to know? I don't get this secretiveness.

So far, I've seen three names. The one you mention, the waitress, and someone named Xiao. Three names in three different publications.

Are you serious? Hell, yes, people need to know who the owner is.

There is also another name floating around as well. Seems very confused. Too many names now up in the air.

aljazeera says that person is a waitress. Could she be an owner and a waitress? And Bangkok Post is identifying her as a pub supervisor. "A waitress at the venue, Thanyapat Sornsuwanhiran, also told Thai television reporters that she saw smoke near the stage. “I shouted ‘fire’ to customers, and I was near the doors, so I directed them out. I kept shouting ‘fire, fire’ and the security guards were also helping lead people out,” she said." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/5/fire-at-a-club-in-eastern-thailand-kills-at-least-13

A lot of very young people all around. In shock. Can't accept what is happening. And crowds need someone to lead. Had just one person taken the initiative, maybe a better result. But there is one thing. After the initial fire, when you see people coming out and on fire, there is a lapse of a few moments before a second, larger explosion occurs. People might have been just too afraid to move towards the building.

The videos are so gruesome I don't see how they can cover it up. The man engulfed in flames crumpling to the parking lot in the background. The young girl with several fires sprouting around her back, neck, and face. The young man walking by calmly apparently unaware that his back has been burnt badly. It was like watching survivors from the Hindenburg.

I fear that that is about as close to the name as we will ever see.

Owner's name, please.