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Christmas Eve - December 24 1968 One of the most amazing pictures ever.

Digging around for a populist cause to keep the mook contingent excited & entertained. It's been done before ...

Only with military service. That said, the Panama canal & Greenland invasions should be quick, relatively painless affairs. Not like pounding sand in Iraq under the previous Republican Regime.

A little late..... Turns out that was the problem .... He was off his meds. His family, who know that he is mentally ill, believes he WAS NOT taking his meds. He has a history of mental illness. But there he is on a flight. Great. 🫤

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The Makro in Hang Dong (or is it Mae Hia) has the 1 for 1 on till the end of the month till the 24th of this month.

Did not vote because ... this is what I purchase Sourdough Rye Pumpernickel Multi grain - Nana's multigrain And on the other end of the spectrum Croissants Danish I rarely buy wheat or white bread. However gladly have either if they come free with the meal.

So you have a running tally of scientists, & if they have shown a sino biases ... yeah Right. Given China will not allow a free and impartial international investigation we are never going to know for sure. Secondly given this is a Republican document, I would not trust it, more to the point the world won't trust it. That is what happens when you become a party of Liars. It gets around.

Thanks for that. I get a couple US papers online, cities I used to live or work in, one of which is populist right in orientation. They have had articles, best interpretation of them is 'sympathetic'. No one likes the healthcare in the US. Leave it to the rightwing retiree crowd here to fixate on WOKE, they got that on the brainpan. Still it gives our geriatric keyboard warriors something to do.

Former Heroin addicts generally don't look healthy.

All is not lost, Assad lover. Trump is almost in. Putin can call in his markers, excellent chance Trump will jump to attention. Just like when Erdogan called, asking the US, er, Trump to betray the US's Kurdish allies. When Putin talks, Trump listens. Perhaps Trump will combine Russian Wagner units & US troops to get a bloodthirsty dictator back in power. It is a whole new world out there. Who knows what wonders may come.

Back to whining about Obama?! Obamacare is a step in the right direction. However one that Republicans have sworn, repeatedly, to destroy, except they can't, because healthcare insurance in the US is so fricking bleak. Donald claimed he would 8 years ago. He was going to replace it with something 'so good, so great, so beautiful', the usual Donald verbal spew, but he did nothing. Just more BS, from the President of BS.

Less than 1 percent of denied health insurance claims are even challenged in the US.

Got that backa--wards Two military coups and two judicial coups against that party. Then the recent judicial coup against the Move Forward party. Two decades down a rat hole, no matter how you feel about the Shins

As I have a lot of toys, I reckon I'm high up in the win category.

They said that in 1930's. What could go wrong?

The Thai boats were running, would have gotten away, if they did not shoot. Myanmar navy boats likely are unable to give chase, lucky they even float. One drowned, four prisoners. THE Thai media is right on this. Not like the 48 Thai nationals Hamas butchered. That might upset potential tourists countries, and they were baan nok Thai, so who cares?! Not the Thai media.

Without fail it is the people who cannot eat anything other that western food who complain about prices in Thailand. Merry Christmas

Russia invades the Ukraine. Hamas invades Israel. This is somehow a US war? In twisted conspiracy demented right dreams maybe, but for rational people no. Only place US troops involved in armed conflicts, are in the country and region jrBush invaded & destabilized, two decades back. For non existent WMD. Trashing the US's international reputation, then enhanced interrogation techniques AKA torture, completed that trash job. Republican's, a curse upon this earth. And here we go again.

New poll from a Russian Troll?! Woohoo, handstand time.

Its long been a right wing Republican dream to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. I think it would be terrible if they did. However many US expats would have to leave Thailand if they S--tcanned it! As I age I find myself less sympathetic to these two bit retirees. You wanted Trump, fine now, without your S Security, back to a MAGA dump in the USA. Try Tennessee or the Florida panhandle.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure any member of Ying's cabinet got juiced, but TIT. BTW The leaders of the PAD movements against her and Mr. T likely got many times more money from the Democratic Party of Thailand who is awash in big money. Before they were able to "provoke" a coup. Ten years gone, the cornering of the market never really worked because other countries increased rice production, when prices when up. (same as Bunker Hunt & silver back in the 80's BTW). Then for the last 6 months or more, there was a judicial coup by those Dems, preventing Ying from selling the rice, even at a loss. This was done to hit at the base of her support. All this rice and can't sell it. You remember that. And NOW we find out that gangreen let the rice from that program rot in warehouses for 10 years, did not sell it. I guess to punish farmers who supported the plan. That still is mind blowing to me but given the vindictive nature of Thai politics likely normal nastiness. While palms got greased, no billions of baht getting rammed into banks in Taiwan. Still it is a popular bar talk notion, beyond that .... zzzzz.

Like I said, more a working class stiff on vacation ... Duh.

Pattaya is a major destination for backpackers? He sounds like a bricklayer on vacation.