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Which wine region? Mick Morris and Stanton and Killeen in the Rutherglen area made big bold reds and fortified wines, like a punch in the mouth.

At this juncture, I would regard a bank as safer than an insurance company. Reason: Climate change is playing merry hell with their risk assessments.

BS. Kennedy hated Johnson's guts, it was reciprocated.

When Waitz had decades of experience with the National Guard, every right-winger rushed to say he was not a real soldier. When Hegseth has the same experience, he morphs into a combat vet. Lying again, but I am used to that from you. The Senate would approve a drover's dog for the job of finding truffles. No problem with peeing, as long as it is in your direction.

Why wouldn't the OP either buy bank shares for the dividends, or live on the interest from funds on deposit? at 6% interest, that's 780,000 baht pa. More than enough to live on. The capital is preserved. Annuities reduce the risk of outliving one's savings. They also are cream for the insurance companies if one dies early.

You are the one who first mentioned Trump. RFK Jr. has no medical qualifications. He's an antivaxxer and conspiracy theorist in charge of America's health. Tell me how you think he is qualified, it will be an interesting exercise in doublethink. Or perhaps you can tell me how a television presenter has the experience to run America's military.

Name me one other President who required personal loyalty from ALL the people he appointed to their positions, WITHOUT regard to qualifications and experience. Let's start with Abraham Lincoln, shall we? Or JFK and Johnson?

I guess I don't understand how anyone but a would-be dictator would appoint people on the sole qualification of personal loyalty.

A particularly nasty specimen from the Stalin era, actually.

News to me Musk and RFK jr. are elected.

Like some unelected apparatchik in the US decides to fire thousands of government employees? Like another who wants to stop basic public health measures?

Get a dog, No matter what happens, it will always love you.

One of their most peculiar beers is Stroh's. I asked the bartender if he was joking. It looked like water with a head of foam.

I have massages 3 times a week, about 2500 baht/month. Golf 3 times a week is about 8000 baht/month. It depends on whether I am playing expensive or cheap courses. Restaurants are not expensive. About 5000 baht/month. It all adds up. I have top level private health insurance in Australia. Medical care in Thailand at the government hospitals is not expensive, except when surgery/anesthesia is needed. A few months ago, I was in hospital for two days with pneumonia. Excellent care, 7000 baht. I thought that was a screaming bargain. I did have the advantage of a Thai GF to assist me through the bureaucracy.

I can accept people having different views to me. However, when those views and opinions are unsupported by any facts or data, my BS radar goes on high alert. I really start to despise posters who resort to personal attacks in lieu of any form of sensible argument. For them, put-downs is the only game in town. Google Ted Mack. He's my idea of what a politician should be.

I think I can pick the difference between brain farts and sarcasm. I don't know if you have noticed Trump is installing people in every position he can reach, who have only one qualification - absolute loyalty. What makes you think the military would be exempted?

It depends on how much capital backing one has. Buying items such as scooters, cars and condos. IMO it is important to have enough capital to cover unexpected medical issues. It also depends on where one lives. Pattaya and Bangkok are a lot more expensive than Chiang Rai. My budget is 55,000 baht/ month. I shop at Makro and the day markets. I don't drink or smoke. Golf and restaurant meals 2-3 times a week. I would probably be living on much less without a GF to support. That's my choice, she supports me as well.

Sorry to contradict you, both are runners-up to Putin.

I have found hatred to be corrosive. Better to walk away, and move on. I despise a few posters. That means I look on them with contempt and disdain. They don't share my values.

I didn't know that. So he gets military training, then gets exempted for bone spurs? Sounds like BS to me.

Ho hum, another Thai-bashing thread by the OP. Maybe the bar girls are calling him Khun Kiniow. Thailand, like anywhere else, is what one makes of it. People who can't hack it haven't done their research.

Trump is teetotal. He knows as much about holding a wine glass as he does about holding a rifle.

You are talking of acts of war. Canada as a member of NATO can call on all other members to assist in its defense. It's possible, like your nom-de-plume, you have been hit in the head too often.

Take out the lead truck, a convoy grinds to a halt. The Russian found that out trying to take Kiev. Americans do have an inflated view of their military capabilities. Apparently Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan taught them nothing. You think 3 or 4 marines can protect 2400 km of road? You think trucks won't need to refuel? What a breathtakingly stupid post..

Lefties is the ad hominem label used by knuckle-draggers and mouth-breathers, when they can't think of a single fact to counter facts and logic. How anyone can argue tariffs do not cause inflation is beyond my comprehension. It's like saying 2+2=3.