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The government wants local people to visit tourist areas, but why should they off they are going to get ripped off? Personal security is Fortnite in the mind of many people. Knowing they will have to overpay for everything will lead to people staying at home as "couldn't be bothered."

Name one secret service director who was forced to resign because of a presidential assassination or failed attempt. Clearly this was a political witch-hunt.

While syphilis is still curable someone once told me that while you can't spot someone with HIV , if they have another STD it's a good indication. HIV is a disease with no cure today (barring news that stem cell replacement may work).

As you have guessed, I don't categorize a flesh wound together with a bullet hole. Even Reagan was actually shot. Trump boasting he "took a bullet to the face" is ridiculous.

So why wasn't Rowley sacked after Kennedy's assassination?

Ground clearance is 135 mm. 17 inch wheels so not too low. Have taken it on country roads where it excels. Would never take it across a field.

So strange that everyone thinks she should have resigned when Trump got a clip around the ear. Assassination and assassination attempts have never before been seen as the fault of the director, all of whom rely on their subordinates to actually carry out the work. I do understand that she took responsibility for the people who were on the scene, which is noble, but historically, she would never have been seen as incompetent. Director James Brooks never had to resign when James Garfield was assassinated in 1881. Director John Wilkie never had to resign when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Director James Joseph Rowley never had to resign when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Why? Even in cases where the president was not killed, like Ronald Reagan in 1981, the director was never pushed to resign. I am not saying there should not be an inquiry. Of course there should. But resignation? I doubt it based on precedent.

So strange that everyone thinks she should have resigned when Trump got a clip around the ear. Assassination and assassination attempts have never before been seen as the fault of the director, all of whom rely on their subordinates to actually carry out the work. I do understand that she took responsibility for the people who were on the scene, which is noble, but historically, she would never have been seen as incompetent. Director James Brooks never had to resign when James Garfield was assassinated in 1881. Director John Wilkie never had to resign when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Director James Joseph Rowley never had to resign when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Why? Even in cases where the president was not killed, like Ronald Reagan in 1981, the director was never pushed to resign. I am not saying there should not be an inquiry. Of course there should.

I have a Mazda MX-5 that I love. Not love but luuurrrrv it. It is a driver's car. Sticks to the road like glue. Looks beautiful, which was why I fell in love with it, and would recommend it to anyone. I have the version with the hard reclining roof (RF) as my wife was concerned that the soft top would be too easy for thieves to cut. I don't regret it. Fuel economy on long journeys can get to over 14 km/Lt but I only drive it weekends. The reason Thais don't buy it (I was told) is that it only has two seats and they can't get mum, dad and kids in. The price starts at below 3 million Baht. I also get it serviced at the Mazda dealer where I bought it and have no problem with it or the people who service it. The photo looks just like mine.

Funny that the UN was created to prevent wars but had such a poor record that it went into other social work (where its record remains poor). If people are to volunteer, the military needs to increase wages and skills training to professional levels. Thinking that conscription is a cheap way of populating the military leads to social problems later (read about how former servicemen are sleeping on the streets these days - and those are the volunteers).

Just let them wait for the ice caps to melt then the trade routes from China to Europe will be fully open.

Whatever tax you save, you lose on declining equity. The stock market is the worst in the world and while the fund is appreciated, it doesn't look like saving the stock market.

Good. If you ignore the warnings, face the wrath of the mighty Black Beauty!

Surly contesting the articles was the first move?

I agree. But we should also compare against developed nations for an apples and apples comparison.

Karaoke is the way to negotiate in Thailand. I agree that a full inquiry needs to be conducted first with doctors providing medical evidence that weed kills, makes you go mad, or causes disability.

The porn shops in Amsterdam don't show their products in the window but they do show their prostitutes in the window. Seems they know what they are doing.

Only in sh*thole countries I agree.🙄

Interesting that John Kelly did confirm the Atlantic story about Trump calling the fallen suckers and losers in private conversation. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543

As countries make it more difficult to own guns, there will be a switch to knife attacks.

Strangely, it was Indians in India who told me this story of a Victorian era British lady walking through a town when she stopped an old Indian gentleman and asked, "Excuse me sir, could you tell me where I might find a toilet?" He expansively waved his arm at the surrounding area and said, " Madam, the whole of India is a toilet." When I was in Pondicheri in the south, I couldn't walk on the beach at all due to the "landmines" everywhere. Goa was clean though.

Not sure anyone can generalize that an 81 year old is past it. Chuck Grassley is 90 and still going.

Good to know. Thanks.

The current protesters are pansies, shrinking violets, pathetic, compared to the women's rights movement. The Suffragettes fought for women to receive the vote in the UK. Among other actions they attacked property including window smashing and arson to fight for female suffrage. The Suffragettes also targeted major works of art and London landmarks. On 4 March 1914 Mary Richardson entered the National Gallery and inflicted seven 'wounds' across Velázquez's painting 'The toilet of Venus’. Emily Wilding Davison was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after throwing herself in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby. Let's not decry people fighting for a better world. P.S. the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists – 97 percent – agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change. https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/do-scientists-agree-on-climate-change/

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