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My comment in respect to qualifications were in respect to her experience and education. not whether or not she met the legal requirements to become PM. Her work experience was restricted to the family owned hotel and golf course investments. Her education was in hotel management. The task ahead requires experience in managing the diverse needs of a nation. She won't have the luxury of hiring and firing on a whim. Delivering social services is very different than delivering a hotel guests somtam order. Understanding the complexities of the Thai constitutional law minefield and government finances requires someone with an understanding of the subject, i.e. experience. She is woefully under prepared and not experienced in public administration. Hence, my comment that she is not qualified for the position. Yes she does, but that doesn't mean she will do a better job. I doubt that she will be given the appropriate respect by the military. She has no personal authority, nor power and has no public accomplishment to support her appointment. Worse is her lack of electoral standing. The MFP had the moral higher ground. I was once a sympathizer of the Thaksin faction, but this man has carried on as if he is the master and ruler of the nation. The only political group that had moral standing to claim the PM office was the MFP. The junta supporters and the Thaksin faction have worked together to deny the people of Thailand access to an honest and clean government. This woman was part of that denial. She is given the office because of her family relation. It is repugnant and I hope that international governments do not facilitate this charade.

The latest 538.com poll delivers Harris 46.3% Trump 43.7%. Turning point was July 28. I expect the Trump booster club to go into full meltdown mode after the Democrat convention bump. The spread will probably hit 5%. If the Dems can keep the momentum and it will be full blown crazy mode for some people.

Good. Too bad it won't stop you from your faulty claims and unsubstantiated arguments in favour of Russia;s war.

Even if that person is unqualified?

You have not addressed the historical reality.? You attempted to justify the Russian initiated war by alluding to Hong Kong. When that did not work, you went to your fall back position of trying to distract with unrelated subject matter. The reality is that you are a defender of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. You support the abrogation of previously agreed upon borders between Russia and Ukraine.

Bears are opportunistic omnivores. This is why they are at risk of parasites. They eat small rodents like ground squirrels, and groundhogs and marmots. They also eat the sick and young of ungulates (deer, moose, elk, and caribou). However, they also eat carcasses aka carrion. Often the parasitic eggs are picked up from the scat of other animals that contaminates the berries and vegetation that they eat.

Not really. Many regions with a critical shortage of housing have cracked down on BNB and short term rentals by absentee landlords. One example which hit Air BNB hard was Canada where some provinces imposed registration and licensing fees to crack down on operators who did not pay taxes and who forced out long term rentals. I will restrict my comments to the cities I know: Hua Hin - the serviced apartments are priced slightly lower than or similar to the basic studio Air BNBs. The difference is that there is 24 hour service, daily cleaning and frequent linen changes at the service apartments. A big condo complex down the soi from me is quite nice and offers a better gym and bigger pool, but the linen change is only once a stay and there is no daily cleaning. The condo owners really hate the short stay guests since they are disruptive. I didn't want to move there because it's like a cheap motel at times despite it being a nice condo complex. In Patong, I rented a condo from a fellow who also rented other units on Air BNB. The Air BNB cost was comparable to a hotel, except the big condo did not have a gym, and the pool was disgusting. Units had small kitchen with no ovens. My takeaway is that Air BNB isn't so great if you have the time to look around and know a locale.

is it really judicial? Seems to me more like Military puppets. A truly independent judiciary would not agree to such interference.

You assume that the video was made in Sudzha. The creation of false road signs for propaganda purposes is not unusual.

What is factually incorrect in my statement? Putin's psychological state has already been profiled and nothing I wrote is outside those assessments; https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/03/26/a_psychological_analysis_of_vladimir_putin_and_his_destructive_leadership_823868.html - Putin has a “strong man” attitude. He displays an apparent lack of regret or remorse for his unethical decisions and the negative effect they have on innocent people. He also fails to accept responsibility for negative outcomes, and typically blames others when something goes wrong. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ukraine-war/Is-Putin-cracking-Voice-analysis-belies-steely-exterior

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Because it demonstrated US capabilities and was intended to reassure US allies in the region. In any given week, the US and other militaries will make grand announcements similar to this. Last June, the Russian navy deployed its flotilla to Havana, Cuba for a week and then traveled to South America. The flotilla included the Admiral Gorshkov a guided missile frigate, one of the Russian navy’s most modern stealth models equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles, which Putin has in the past said can fly nine times faster than the speed of sound at a range of more than 1,000km. It also carried Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles. The Kazan a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with missiles from the Kalibr and Oniks families was included. Where were you when the Russians did this? Did you accuse them of a provocation? The Russians had made a similar announcement to the USA. The difference is that the Russian presence was intended to prop up dictatorships, while the US presence is to deter violence.

Perhaps he envied the Russian opportunity to loot women's lingerie and home appliances?

Because the Russians have done it previously. The Ukraine forces are well aware of thee claims of Nazisim and measures were taken to prevent such incidents. There will always be stupidity and some idiot may at some point do similar, but under the circumstances, when the whole world is watching for missteps, such an action would be unusual. Your claim of it being Ukrainian has no greater validity than it being a Russian staged event for propaganda purposes.

No he is not.

Your argument is built upon your dismissive defensive response in respect to the example I provided on restaurants. You initially started off with the claim that business failed because of the response to Covid. It was an attempt to blame business failures on the protective public health strategies. Restaurant failure rates were used to illustrate that businesses failed because of bad business decisions, either in location, menu, management and/or operation. 60% of US restaurants typically fail in year 1. That is not because of Covid. You then tried to intimate that the economy was destroyed when it was not. The historical bankruptcy rates do not support your argument. The historical data shows a temporary disruption that is being corrected now. Economies go through periodic economic recessions. These correct the excessive highs when economies expand too fast. In the USA recessions occurred in 1960, 1970, 1973-1975, 1980-1982, 1990, 2001, 2007-2009, and 2020. The 2020 did not fully correct the excess of the prior decade so it is expected that there will be a mild correction to come. You see these cycles of evidence of conspiracies and government negligence. Responsible educated rational people see them for what they are: market cycles. You then go off on a disjointed polemic that makes no sense except to someone who is so certain that their veiw point is correct. "Facts" are fabricated to support nonsensical claims. (Trump does this too.) Of course we all suffered, some more than others because of Covid. And of course there were financial losses incurred. However, when put into the historical context, national governments for the most part did a pretty good job of keeping their nations up and running.

Too late. The patient who was terminal is now in hospice care.

This is nothing. In NYC they have been riding the subway car rooves and getting fried or squashed. In London, Daily Mail had a photo of one idiot riding the back of a bus, holding his machete.

Trump won't listen to Nikki. She's a woman who doesn't flatter him incessantly. Watching Trump flail about in meltdown model is sort of sad. The man may have jumped the shark, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview but sometimes I sort of feel sorry for him. The world is passing him by now and he doesn't realize it. He's an elderly guy who just doesn't realize that its 2024 not 1984. His core supporters are the people who got angry when parking meters went electronic and stopped taking coins. Let him keep it up. His core supporters will still vote for him. He will just convince people who were not going to vote, to vote and people who want the craziness to end, to hold their noses and vote Democrat.

Why not get a service apartment? cleaning service and change of sheets and towels.

No. Caused by a brain drain and 6 million Venezuelan refugees. The USA is not alone in its sanctions and restrictions. Many countries who have foreign policies divergent from the USA have sanctions in place, typically because of venezuela's horrid human rights abuses and state sanctioned criminal activities. These countries include, Switzerland, Mexico, Panama, Columbia, EU as a group, Canada , Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Belize. Blaming the USA is a cop out.

The access referred to was reciprocal. Russia was given access to US facilities too. It was part of the nuclear arms limitation agreements. The access was granted under strict conditions and was to verify that missiles had been removed. Your link does not support a claim of Russia being an American colony. It is an rhetorical leap to claim such a construct. Yes, Putin has an obvious feeling of inadequacy. It is common in short people who also demonstrate psychopathic characteristics. Whether this is due to his height or his family background or his genetic structure is a matter I will leave with the scientists.

Yours are false claims. Because you imagine things does not mean they occurred. The Swedish results you say support your position do not exist. On the contrary the Swedish data, shows that the initial Swedish open policy failed. There was no incarceration of people in the USA. Free movement as individuals was never stopped. Again you blame the failures of business on "politicians" and not on the businesses themselves. Businesses that were in poor financial shape prior to Covid suffered their inevitable fate. What part of 60% of US restaurants failing in their first year did you not understand? The historical record number of bankruptcies in the USA certainly do not support your claim. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/bankruptcies# What are these results in Sweden that are so good that you refer to? You compare Sweden to the USA and UK, which is an unacceptable comparison since their characteristics are not similar. Compare Sweden to its peer group of nations like Denmark and Norway and the Swedish results are worse. Both Denmark and Norway initially had had greater restrictions in place, until Sweden also imposed restrictions. The Danish and Norwegian economies did no worse, but their loss of life results were significantly better. Sweden based its strategy on the disproven "herd immunity theory". It didn't work for Covid until there was a vaccine. The claim that Sweden did so much better was offered as an excuse in the initial period of Covid, but the actual data shows that was not a correct conclusion. "The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that in terms of pandemic-driven economic contraction, Sweden did markedly worse than its Nordic neighbors Denmark, Norway and Finland, “despite the adoption of softer distancing measures, especially during the first COVID wave.” The OECD review concluded that , “Covid hit the (Swedish) economy hard.” As the death toll mounted, Sweden also imposed public gathering caps and encouraged distance learning for students. Nature's review showed that Swedish government authorities denied or downplayed scientific findings about COVID that should have guided them to more reasoned and appropriate policies. These included scientific findings that infected but asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people could spread the virus, that it was airborne, that the virus was a greater health threat than the flu and that children were not immune. The Swedish policymakers “denied or downgraded the fact that children could be infectious, develop severe disease, or drive the spread of the infection in the population”. At the same time, they found, the authorities’ “internal emails indicate their aim to use children to spread the infection in society.” Once the failure of Sweden's initial approach became evident, Sweden reversed course and implemented restrictions. Multiple reviews support the Nature authors conclusions. examples are Comparing the responses of the UK, Sweden and Denmark to COVID-19 using counterfactual modelling, Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 16342 (2021) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/04/06/Sweden-Deadly-COVID-Failure/ You state that wages are not catching up. Ok. Do you realize then that you have just unwound your own claims? One of the largest factors in current inflation were wage increases. Your saying that wages have not "kept up" means that inflation is lower than it is. You are all over the place throwing anything that you can in hopes that it will stick. Accusing "politicians" of criminal negligence is pure idiocy. Almost all of the governments did their best under catastrophic circumstances. They had difficult decisions to make and their first obligation was to keep their nations up and running. That's what they did. Under the circumstances, few could have done better, particularly when there were so many competing interest groups all screaming for different things. If there were problems, it was because of people like you, always complaining and criticizing and contributing nothing but negativity and false information.

At least they are operating. The UK and Canadian submarine fleets are mostly inoperable.

Reads like a nursing home roster of residents.