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Lot more outrage, if you can call it that anymore, to come. Bob Woodward's new book has Trump chatting secretly to Putin, at least seven times & sending him wuhan flu test gear, at the height of the pandemic. Trump is denying the calls, at least, no comment regarding the Putin gift. Yet while he denies, no threats made about legal action against Mr. Woodward. Hmmmm As Donald Trump is a documented, prolific, congenital, liar, who will believe his denials?!

Hunter owned a Laptop. Hunter was convicted on gun charges. True Statements. You sound a little too desperate when you try to imply they were in some way related. Try something else.

Get your cultures straight. Taking the piss is a Brit thing, it goes over like dead donkey in the USA. Newscasters featured it in the US, as yet another instant of Trump being not just a liar, which everyone already knows, but a tasteless a-shoIe of a liar.

That diseased appendage, known as Americas dong, has indeed provoked Gods wrath. Lucky for them Blue states will fund the rebuild. Red states? ... they are in the red financially, kept afloat by the blue states and can't be expected to be of much help.

If we did not shop at the local Thai markets for food and whatnot, 90 per cent of our monthly purchases could be made by scan-jie or bank transfers. Local produce vendors rarely have Q codes still ... our roadside motorcycle shop does have a Q code scan-jie option. Rather impressed when I found that out. Still pulling out a bunch of bills from the ATM also acts as a monthly budget, you have a visual of how much money you have left and what you have spent. For us 'right brain' types, this is a good thing.

Times are changing. Families of the Kader Toy factory fire received a paltry 100K baht initially and then were offered up to 300K baht. With that they must sign off on additional legal action. Kader Factory owners received a 500 K Baht or 20K USD fine. That for the deaths of 188 people. STILL Can't blame the victims?! Time to blame the victims families. The powers that be will fight this turn of events tooth & nail. How dare the parents not raise the kids!

Nimmaen is not flooded (well according to this mornings news) -Grace dental has a clinic there. Thapae has 6 inches of water .... unprecedented but likely no damage to Dental 4 U You likely could start next MONDAY ... BUT many Docs might not be coming in as taking care of their house. Just got to start calling. It is up to you GG. No one call help you beyond this point. You have to make the call. As always our hopes and prayers are with you.

Bone grafts are a common procedure in the US, Euro land, and Thailand with many implants. There are 5 or 10 excellent dental clinics in CM. Grace Dental usually gets the most praise and one of the higher price ones, I have used Dental for U on Thapae for over a decade, including root canal, an implant, cavities cleaning etc. I believe the women is a UCLA grad, not that that makes a difference but likely can talk you through your anxiety. Now time to walk away from the keyboard in your box and get it done .... or next week as half the town is flooded. Bloody heck everything is a Golgotha, a literal Calvary with you GG.

The boat in the picture above is actually in Chiang Mai Land. They are removing people who want to go as this will last longer and rise higher than before. Water has also risen in the last couple hours on Mahidol RD. It is now coming over on the westbound lane. Ping River will continue to rise with a large volume of water reaching Chiang Mai this evening. "possibly flooding several bridges and causing water to spread more widely" - Mayor of Chiang Mai at a late morning press conference.

Boat heading to Padet Bridge on Mahidol

Water pushed through CM land onto Mahidol RD, last night. East bound lane slow with long backup.

Over 50% of monthly expenditures paid by Bank App, Q code scan or transfers. We pull out 15 or 20 K, first of the month from the ATM. Ready baht in hand for local markets & whatnot. We are regular market shoppers, cash & carry.

You mean the three years he served before he was out by a Royal Pardon? I would be VERY surprised if he actually seved three years in a real prison. People of his social status rarely do.

First cup of coffee on a dreary, rainy, end of the monsoon morning & we have breathless gleeful whooping about the possibility that Kamala might have lied. This from people who worship the biggest liar in US political history; One Donald Trump. If you are desperate. Trump continues to sink in the polls & head Nazgul Vlad Putin, just called up another 130,000 souls for his victorious war. One must grasp at straws, any straws. Ok, lets grab the toy spears and start the chant, boys ... Obama, Obama Obama Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Hilary Hilary Hilary ------------------------------- ready now?! Kamala Kamala Kamala

Uh oh, Vance has a hissy about getting fact checked ... then mics are cut. Well when so much of what you are campaigning about is based on lies, it does seem a bit unfair to get called on them. Ahh well, buck up JD

No matter how they spin it & what window dressing used, numbers have never made it back to pre flu from Wuhan province, days. Given continued economic problems in China no real expectation that it will this year or next.

$200 billion over two years for the US, so 0.5% of The United States GDP. This war should have lasted three weeks but due to Russian incompetence here we are years later. Having more countries join NATO, Russian military exposed as a laughingstock and suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties. That is a great deal. Money well spent

Grim Autumn on the Volga. Vlad Putin's advisors came to the realization that their surrogate; Donald Trump, was likely not going to win the election after the Harris debate. Now following hard on that realization, Ukraine will be allowed to strike deep into Russia. perhaps as early as next week. The obligatory threats, echoed by Putin's sycophants, here on this Forum and worldwide, frothing & screaming, 'Nuclear War'! Meanwhile in Moscow they have been tamping down the idea of a nuke response to the Ukraine. Yes a crazy idea to begin with, but one which they stoked their own populace with. . Now comes the walking back. Tigran Keosayan made an appearance on nuke froth-er Vlad Solovyovs show. Many thought specifically to tamp down nuke talk and since Keosayan is connected to Vlad Putin ,,,, an official walking back of Nuke The Ukraine yammering. Tough times in the Fascist Russian propaganda state.

1330 Water pushed through Chiang Mai land, from Changklan and over Mahidol HWY. The east bound lane is the most affected with traffic backed up from here to the Airport 4 way. Picture was taken on the HWY next to the McDonalds .... CM Land RD is 40 meters further up ahead.

Water is still rising. The mooban below has had a 30 CM (or more) rise since 630 AM, 12 noon now. No motorcycles trying it now.

It would be nice. I'm looking at the knee high water in the lower moobaan as I type. This place was built on higher ground though so dry. Do not think that will Happen. That said Tamboon address could qualify.

Trump going on Fox is not hiding?! It is not talking to the media that is for sure. FOX is a conservative media outlet. As such a Trump visit, is just part of free campaign advertising courtesy of the Murdoch's. As for Harris just campaigning for the next six weeks, hope that does not change your vote.

Ah an article from Newsweek. An old famous liberal magazine, that due to internet & media in general, it was sold and is now run by a hard right wing conservatives. with additional conservative NGO funding. Perhaps less reputable a news source than the New York Post, and that is saying something. Its going to be down to the wire. The good thing with the cash she is raising, Harris can continue high level media presence from now until election day. Meanwhile Trump just put in another good word for Vlad Putin, the Felon cannot help himself.

Water levels rose again during the night. Water flooded moobans to the west of Chang Klan RD centering around/off Wiang Ping RD south to Mahidol and north to Kad Kom market. That would also be west, south west, of Chiang Mai Mother and Child Hospital. This area did not flood in recent years, 2011 or 05 would have been the last time water made it this far.