Fat is a type of crazy

40 minutes ago, 2long said:

 

I had heard slavery was mentioned and I was a bit on the fence but seeing the way he expressed himself, with multiple references to slavery as per 2long's post, I can see why the hotel felt it necessary to take action.

He should have responded after posting such an over the top thing and getting multiple warnings from the hotel.

Despite that the penalty doesn't fit the crime. 

Stayed at the hotel and it's a beauty. 

54 minutes ago, Emdog said:

I'm a liberal and condemn antifa more than proud boys and perhaps KKK. Those ignorant punks have

served to make protests, BLM delegitimized in eyes of general public. Doesn't take lots of these usually young, usually white suburban dolts to shift focus and give those opposed to dealing with issues of race and justice and out.

Antifa couldn't be more in service of white racists if they were on the payroll of KKK

There is that line where good intentions become bad deeds and it is frustrating to the left cause.

I think a fair proportion of the violence and looting isn't a particular group or affiliation but just opportunistic youths out to cause some havoc or steal a pair of the latest Nikes. Fox News would have it that any bad outcome is the Antifa boogeyman and Antifa, and other lefties, will be the puppeteer to Joe Biden's puppet and destroy the suburbs.

22 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

That was BEFORE BLM revealed what they are all about .

Since the BLM have reveled themselves to be marxist , anti capitalist , anti police , anti semites , many people have distanced themselves from the group  

From what I see some people distance themselves from BLM because sometimes their arguments lack a bit of subtlety or nuance in relation to things like Defunding the Police and cases like the Breonna Taylor case.

Some may see them as a bit antipolice but that's a simplistic and not accurate view of things. The other descriptors you have made above are way over the top. 

3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Watch it, it will be obvious.

I did. I think some of Trumps ideas are so out there e.g. denying climate change, and not accepting election results, and just general interuptions, such that what you call bias is just the moderator wanting to have a sensible debate.

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Just saw the debate. I am sad that not only are the media against Trump, so is the moderator. Very biased.

Give us examples. 

12 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

1st debate just finished and Biden just got smoked on the NYT's hit piece regarding Trump taxes.

If you believe Trump paid millions of tax on his 2016 tax return then good for you. He tried to go around it by saying he paid millions in tax in general but when cornered he said he paid millions on his 2016 tax return and he almost certainly lied. Surely he could show us that part of his tax return showing the tax payable only. No? Yeah thought so.

My 2 cents is that Biden does make me squirm sometimes and I think he could've done a better job answering some questions. Overall though he duked it out with Trump and did OK.

Trump does have a force of personality and is good and getting a message across, but he also came across as a bit bullying, annoying, and sometimes just silly e.g. not willing to accept the election result and on climate change.

I think people will come out of this feeling there are two flawed candidates but that Biden is a better man and a better person for the future of America.

2 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

They look like their owners and they are eating machines built for speed,they get heaps of cane in the cutting season but doesn't make any diff.I see a neighbour's cows go past our place everyday shaped like your blue water tanks they're a different breed as well as having a dedicated carer I haven't seen a cow that well built and I've seen lots of cows when I worked on the Gas pipeline from Adelaide to Port Campbell through the middle of dairy country copping daily zaps from electric fences.Now our Big Momma cow has a sore leg which is my fault as usual I noticed it yesterday and thought she might have just slept on it but she's still limping this morning so I told Mrs FFF and got in trouble for not telling her earlier so just waiting for the vet to have a look.

My ex wife's buffalo had a problem with each of it's legs at one time or another. Cost a bit to fix. When there was the same problem a fifth time I got suspicious. 

Because they're not as fat as people from, say, Europe and the states. Many who die are obese.

6 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

And what facts might those be?  Nothing illegal about Trump's taxes have been proven to date.  So you have facts but proof of nothing.  Go ahead and pin your hopes on it.  Another "gotcha" moment.  How many of those have we had now?  Someone should be counting.

It may not prove illegality but it at least builds a strong case that he has significant debt, is not the successful businessman he claims to be, and the few swing voters left might not think much of paying more tax than this so called billionaire.

Though not a criminal offence there is a fairly strong inference too that some of his deductions are shonky, are being investigated,  and he's likely to get a tax debt and penalty that could be huge. 

Tomorrow hill hopefully be a good day. Trump can make his contradictions and obfuscations at press conferences but watch Chris Wallace and Biden take him to task on this issue. I am confident that Biden will do OK. He's a bit old but he's got a long history of debating and he's good at getting to the nub of things. Here's hoping.

23 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

By what stretch of the imagination does a president's debt equate to national security issues?  The absurdity does not go unnoticed.

So, what if Trump has debts to Russians or some other banks, entities or individuals.  Wouldn't the taxpayer want to know what might influence a president in his decision making. If those debts need to be called in, as appears could be the case in the near future, the pressure on a president to either offer some benefit to these parties, or use his position to gain funds to pay the debt, looms large.

But luckily there is a president with a strong moral compass so nothing to worry about. Come on man.

So Trump was a flimflam man who never paid tax. Who'd have thunk it.

Before his supporters say that it's smart to pay no tax that is true if there is underlying profit. If you pay no tax because of losses, at casinos etc etc, it is not the sign of the world's best businessman.

21 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

The experts say there is no voter fraud, so can we put the Russian Interference to rest. Next, all this talk of Trump not stepping down if he loses is all talk. Just something to feed the frenzy. All the "what might happen" hype is just a way to sensationalize the news, so the talking heads can talk about "what might happen"

 

Have the election and let the chips fall as they may.

The Russian interference is real but it is primarily about sowing discord in social media and similar tactics. 

The 'what might happen' hype wouldn't be necessary if he himself wasn't directly saying he won't accept it. 

I hope the day comes  where Trump supporters say, 'Hey Donald we like the way you do things but this talk of not accepting the election outcome is a step too far.' 

As you seem to be saying he can say what he likes; If he loses he'll be turfed. 

In the States I went with my old boss to see the Baltimore Orioles at a beautiful stadium. One team got a few runs early on and then the game just seemed to go on for ever. It was fun to be there but the game got boring. The crowd just talked amongst themselves and drank beer. They were drinking Fosters which I find funny as it's hard to find it in Australia.

Won free tickets to the Ashes a few years ago and took my Thai girlfriend. Hate to say it but that was boring too. One team slowly batted all day. She liked the big crowd but we were too used to tv and the players just seemed too far away. More fun with a bunch of blokes I suppose.

If you are near Ubon today, and your wife needs something for the Temple for the upcoming Buddha days, you could do worse than get these 'Baisri' as she calls them, made by my partner and on sale at her cousin's flower shop. You can get fancy ones or the basic cheap ones on display at the shop. Happy she's keeping busy and getting a bit of spending money. 

We've got a polar blast here today. Winter is back. I would just love to be in Thailand - be in the heat, be with the girlfriend, get my favourite combination of fried chicken, som tam and beer, can't wait.

1 hour ago, CorpusChristie said:

You enjoy watching people being disrespectful and abusive at funerals ?

Its terrible behavior, to act the way they did .

Their Parents have failed in bringing their Children up to be decent Human beings 

I get that it's not cool to jeer at a funeral. Many people probably feel that Trump is rarely outside the safety of his rallies full of his supporters so it was their only chance.

Something tells me Ruth Bader Ginsburg wouldn't have been too upset. 

57 minutes ago, Damual Travesty said:

Dangerous in your view. In my view they are not. Further let's take Thailand as a case in point. They had literally zero cases of covid. Now where do you go from there? Once upon a time, Governments were saying they wanted to hold the cases down to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed until a vaccine or heard immunity could be achieved. Now what? How long? I am starting to think that the USA is going to be in a good position when round 2 or 3 starts coming around because I think a heard immunity is developing. Further a vaccine is coming, but let's talk about that. Vaccine for flue typically have a 50 percent effective rate at best. We wont know about this until they go into mass usage.  I have not been paying attention to the numbers in Australia so I can't say. But I do not believe lock downs have done any good. I cannot explain the low cases in Certain SouthEast Asia countries but I think it has to do with far more then wearing of masks. I do not agree with any negative assessment of Donald Trump on this. Where are you getting your news? All outlets of the USA are hostile to Trump short of Fox news and even they are becoming more and more neoconservative influenced because of board and ownership changes. I watch sky news from Australia. They seem to have a far different view from yours on COVID and on Donald Trump.

Sky News Australia in the evenings are Fox News wannabe's in my opinion. Not my cup of tea but that's a matter of opinion. I get that, say, ABC News America can seem a bit anti Trump, but it could be that they just literally think his actions are appalling, and should be reported as such, rather than a democrat republican thing.

I don't know how you can sit through the evening Fox News presenters without laughing or turning off. So bizarrely, soul destroyingly, biased. Each to their own. 

Australia is right now getting close to Covid free though where I live in Melbourne we are just finishing a nasty lockdown. The latter was due to a stuff up with hotel quarantine. The rest of Australia is fairly open after a previous lock down. There are about 800 deaths in total and many caused by the hotel issue and some poor controls in a few nursing homes. New Zealand took a similar approach to Australia and has 25 deaths. America cases are on the rise and over 200,000 deaths. 

I get the lockdown issue is not clear cut but it seems to have worked in this part of the world.