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Patong2021

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  1. No need to get excited. This is an OPEN 3 month poll, where people, or bots could vote as many times as they want. It is neither scientific nor reliable in its methodology. It is regionally biased. Don't be fooled. How can Philippines, Vietnam or Garuda airlines be selected as a top airline?Notice how EVA, ANA are not mentioned? These 3 airlines rate consistently ahead ofthe other 3 mentioned. Look at the airports. Bali? Seriously? Jakarta? The frequent flyer programs called the best are often cited as the worst in other worldwide surveys.
  2. Ok, so let's say the photo was from March 2024. The vessels were not necessarily discernible from other large vessels in March 2024. The 2025 statement from naval news shows a very different vessel. Please tell me how the vessels showed above are similar to vessels shown in the other photo.
  3. much ado about nothing. It will eventually be demolished and was just allowed to stand for now.
  4. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/china-suddenly-building-fleet-of-special-barges-suitable-for-taiwan-landings/ The discovery of the building process was a few months ago.
  5. developed but not built. Recently built.
  6. US has conidered Taiwan to be a trading partner valuable to US interests. Loss of Taiwan allows China to control shipping routes critical to US interests. USA is now seen as weak. Dropping bombs on houthis is not strength.
  7. I don't see how they are cream for the insurers. The annuity value at death is paid to the estate. unless the owner arranded for the anuity to continue for a spouse's benefit.
  8. Because he is 72 and wishes to have a guaranteed income. Now is not the time to gamble on the stock market.
  9. How was it an influenza virus? The SARS virus genome has been mapped and is quite different from an influenza virus.
  10. Yes airfares are ridiculously expensive on some routes. However, that is a reflection of demand. Airlines have moved to dynamic pricing and as demand has increased, so too have airfares. Not really. Europeans and Canadians had easy access for visits. Canadians are the most frequent and biggest spending tourists. As a class of visitor, they do not remain in the USA. They are choosing to stay at home.
  11. What was factually incorrect about my statement? The typical US national is ignorant and uneducated. Not much different than anyone else in the world. True or False? IQs can be distributed on a Bell curve. True or False? Much of the US population is at an average IQ or less than average. True or False? That's all Trump needed to convince to win his election. True or False?
  12. Gosh, they have been singing the praises of Songkran ages. My contribution is via the travel taxes as I leave for Songkran. This year, I was forced to leave even earlier since the TG & NH flights to Tokyo were sold out .
  13. Nor can I. Yes, but they also have a very basic subsistence lifestyle. One should aspire for better than that. No. Don't be silly. AC, potable water, quality food all have a cost. Maids, drivers and other support staff have a cost. Know why some people have clothing that never smells like wet dog? They launder using filtered, purified water and that costs.
  14. Trump is not deranged. He is a narcissist, greedy and selfish, yes. However, he knows right from wrong. He is also a loving and supportive father. He genuinely cares for his kids. If he was a dysfunctional narcissist he would not. Trump is a legacy of 1970's America. That's what the disco era gave us.
  15. The typical US national is ignorant and uneducated. Not much different than anyone else in the world. IQs can be distributed on a Bell curve. Much of the US population is at an average IQ or less than average. That's all Trump needed to convince to win his election.
  16. You have ignored a salient post and instead offered only childish insults. Is it because you lack the cognitive ability to understand the situation, or are you just afraid and are in denial, or are you just a nasty individual?
  17. Those are endemic cases that are already managed with most under care and which are responding to treatment. The concern is that the foreign strains are mutating and if left untreated will present antibiotic resitance that is umanageable. The foreign TB patients typically present with other diseases as well creating the potential to create super infections.
  18. How much more freedom of movement do you want with the hundreds of migrants arriving every day?
  19. They already voluntarily pay income tax on income from the Duchies and earnings from personal investments.
  20. Untreated infectuious disease does not remain contained. We see that with measles now. We saw it with MPox, Covid and Ebola. The TB will spread throughout Africa and then ito the Gulf states and Europe. And then it will enter the USA. Containing a disease elsewhere, protects the home country. Unless the USA is prepared to erect a wall around the USA and prevent its people from traveling, including US military, the disease will enter the USA.
  21. Luckily they were not Chinese or Israeli, otherwise the AN bigots would be after them.
  22. Mr. Trump is not the leader of the free world. The USA does not occupy that position. Mr. Trump is given to false and inaccurate statements.
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