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Really? Is this a characteristic common to brothel type bars?

At some point, I expect that more than a few Republicans are going to wish this wasn't an issue as their rentboys and shemale companions start sharing information.

If you want to get technical and be historically accurate, much of the Gaza population are arab occupiers. The population prior to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was small and there was a jewish population. There were arabs, but they were mostly Bedouin. The core arab population has no familial ties to the majority of arabs who now live in Gaza. During WWI the Turks expelled jews from Gaza,. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the jews returned. Much of their property had been looted or was occupied by Arabs. With the partition of British occuped Israel, and Transjordan, and the custody of Gaza assigned to Egypt, Gaza became host to a large Arab population who were told by Arab nations to leave the state of Israel as it would be destroyed. Many migrated to Gaza. The Bedouin were driven from their lands by occupying non resident arabs. The indigenous arab families saw their lands and properties seized by arab migrant squatters. And now we come to great enlightened political pundits like you. Your position ignores the rights of the Bedouin, and the original arab clans, most of whom had no problem with their Israeli neighbors. Your position dipossesses these arabs in favour of a large and dominating group of arabs who are foreign to Gaza. If you were to say, that Bedouin grazing rights, and the original Gaza tribal clan property claims must be respected and their lands reurned then you would be arguing from a position of moral integrity. Unfortunately, you are not.

Criticize him all you want, but at least Trump has tried to come up with an option that will treat the arabs humanely, and to faciliate and support peace and prosperity. The current methods don't work.

Let go of the pearls clara. The Thais who are allowed into western countruies are doing the work that westerners won't and/or cannot do. The Thais are primarily employed on farms and in the hospitality sector. Are you able to cook Thai food in a restaurant under pressure, or work as farm labour? If so, you can replace the Thais, who are there because there is no one competent locally.

It is easy to see who has never made a sizeable donation to charity or to the government. 🙂 You can't even insult Biden with an accurate statement. It most certainly will be. I suppose that since you do not make charitable contributions,you can't be expected to know much about tax policy in the free world. Not really. He would be fronting the funds. You are correct. Here is how these things work. - One person sponsors the project. They then ask friends, clients, suppliers and supporters to participate. - Approx. 50% of the donation is deductible from income, which is a generous tax reduction. In effect, money that would have otherwise been paid in tax is instead diverted to a preferred project. If the lead fundraiser is good, much of the project is paid for by others who will also contribute. This is nothing new, and is used by large companies and the wealthy to manage their tax liabilities. It isa generous offer by Trump in the sense that it will take some time to organize. He would however get credit and most likely naming rights to the room. The fact is that the US government is paying for the tent rentals. A built for purpose facility would be more cost effective. Nothing wrong with the Trump proposal, and I agree with him, that having the events in a tent is low end.

The USA does not screen when leaving. Only people on the do not fly list will be flagged at checkin. Unless his passport was cancelled, he can travel.

A proposal is a starting point. One does not need to negotiate first in order to make a proposal for discussion. You interpret according to your bias. I understand it from the perspective of a property/real estate developer with a vision. The USA will assume project management and control of the project. The intent is to minimize the potential for corruption and for terrorist infrastructure being built back. What is so wrong in hoping to give the people a safe and prosperous place to live? You are projecting your own bias. Trump approached this from his experience and perspective as a project initator and developer. He dreams big. What he has proposed is a working concept. It will be adjusted and modified going forward to reflect the needs and interests of stakeholders. To date, Trump is the only person to come up with a viable concept. No one else, including the Arabs has offered anything better than building back ugly concrete structures complete with military dual purpose. The Europeans and USA are expected to pay for it . What is the point of repeating past errors?

USAID is accountable to the US Congress.

If the person suggesting this was not named Trump, and if it was anyone else other than Arabs of Gaza involved, the proposal would be described as generous, compassionate and brilliant. North Gaza is uninhabitable. If people return, the area will not be able to be rebuilt quickly and without the same issues as before with military installations embedded into residential areas, schools and hospitals. Trump is not proposing a permanent move. It is temporary, to allow the rapid rebuilding and development of the area. A multibillion$/Euro business has been built out of the chronic need for financial aid for Gaza. European aid agencies make their livings from this as does UNRWA. An arab bureacracy and wealthy class depends on the flow of aid money. Much of the population does not work, not for the lack of opportunity, rather they are paid to sit around. The Trump proposal will break the dependency and give the opportunity of prosperity and self determination to the people of gaza. The Trump plan also ensures that the billions in aid will be used to buld a community and not finance terrorism. No arab nation will publicly support this because they are afraid to, not because they think it is wrong. Every arab leader knows what happened to Jordan's king Abdullah and Anwar Sadat when they were pragmatic. The Hamas millionaires will be opposed and Iran will fight the plan. There is no ethnic cleansing and no war crime in the proposal.

I have a feeling she was being aggressive on her scooter and her target was having none of it.

Yes, it is a good idea to control the debt. It will require a sharp knife and a willingness to step on toes etc. However, the US has a constitution and is supposedly a nation subject to the rule of law. There is something quite concerning about unelected, unvetted and unknown people acting without transparency. The US Congress controls the purse of the USA. Dismantling agencies and departments that Congress has initiated, or has a right to oversee, without the knowledge or consent of Congress is undemocratic. Musk has conflicts of interest with the groups he is attacking. Let a neutral person without a conflict of interest take responsibility.

It looks like none of the complaining contingent has traveled elsewhere for several years. It is Thailand that has been lagging behind. I was in Japan last month and completed similar , but more detailed using the Visit Japan Web. It went quickly. South Korea, Canada and the USA have similar, e-documentation requirements. Are you going to criticize Japan and South Korea too? System works for them and tourism isn't negatively impacted. It will only be awkward for those with intellectual limitations, They can use the help lines if need be. Frequent travelers are enthusiastic and support the change. I wish this would go away. 70 year olds are not infirm. If they can manage to swallow their viagras and swoosh about Pattaya, then they can use the general lines like their younger versions. The people who pay for fast track are often stuck behind these people. The only people who are left in a muddle are the intellectually challenged. They system is coming. Whether it is in May or in July is a different story. It isn't difficult to check the requirements prior to arriving. The plan isn't worthless and is necessary. It will reduce paper work and improve processing times. It works i other countries like USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea.

You are deluded. Public opinion is running negative against the USA. The people booing the US anthem at sports events are not leftists. The first minister of Ontario, Canada's largest economy, is a Conservative and was a big fan of Trump. And then Trump wanted to damage his nation's economy and bully his country. Now he is Captain Canada and was the most vocal enthusiast of retaliatory tariffs and for cutting oil and gas to the USA. The first minister of Quebec, is a right wing cultural nationalist. He is now marching in lockstep with the other provincial first ministers. The last time they were unified on a common enemy was during Covid. Trump has unified Canada and given it a common enemy. You can't get any more politically arrogant than that. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadian-leaders-call-for-retaliation-unity-in-response-to-donald-trumps-tariffs-on-canadian-imports/article_f1fff268-e0db-11ef-a95f-af0d84bd113d.html Your labeling people as "leftist" whenever there is a position contrary to that of the Trump collective is infantile and demonstrates that you are unable to offer a rational argument to support or justify your position. When you can get Poilievere to take Trump to task and point out the lies of Trump it makes clear how dumb Trump's stunt was. There is no turning back now.

Exactly. The legal fees are going to eat into the estate. If she was meant to be taken care of, it would have been stated in the will. Otherwise, she was probably already taken care of. He probably took into account that she had ownership of the home, contents and any motor vehicles and adjusted his estate accordingly. On the other hand, as a reminder to those who who would bash her as an opportunist, keep in mind that she was living with a mentally ill man and probably was acting as his caregiver/stabilizing presence. He couldn't have been easy to live with, so she does have a moral basis to get something.

Canada did not fold. Trump had to find a way out of the mess as the markets were reflecting the stupidity of the tariff threats. Even run of the mill US citizens were saying it was a dumb idea. Canada has done nothing more than repackage what it was already doing. Because the right wing tabloids like Daily Mail says it folded doesn't mean it did. The only change is that Canada has said that it will move to classify Mexican cartels as a terror organization and that it will designate someone to act as a a fentanyl control supervisor. Smoke and mirrors. Trump has turned Canadians against the USA very quickly and the move is on to avoid US products. Governor of red state kentucky was crying the blues when he realized that Kentucky's largest market, Canada was boycotting US products. The damage is done.

It didn't take long for that type of comment.

For the same reason the USA doesn't stop the fentanyl and other contraband entering Canada. The fact is that Canada is intercepting the drugs, It stops them from entering the USA, but it also stops it from entering Canada from the USA. The USA is the security problem. - Identified almost 34,000 foreign nationals seeking to enter Canada at a port of entry along the land border with the U.S. whom our officers believed to be inadmissible. This has increased about 30% from 25,500 in 2023. - Removed over 14,000 foreign nationals from Canada for violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Of these, more than 4,100 inadmissible foreign nationals were returned to the U.S. and about 460 were U.S. nationals. In respect to weapons and drugs the Canadians reported; - 1,274 prohibited weapons and 750 firearms were seized coming from the U.S. - Seized over 25,600 kg of illegal drugs (both inbound and outbound). We also intercepted over 15,000 kg of cannabis and 547,000 kg of undeclared tobacco preventing millions of dollars in revenue evasion and combatting organized crime. Of our total illegal drug seizures, we stopped: - 4.9 kg of fentanyl, an increase of 775% from the same period in 2023, of which 4.1 kg was intercepted outbound before it could be smuggled towards the Netherlands. - 3,955 kg of cocaine, an increase of 168% from the same period in 2023 - 37 kg of heroin - 21,457 kg of other drugs, narcotics and precursor chemicals - 237 kg of other opioids (including opium, methadone, morphine and morphine base) Trump is untruthful and Americans are too intimidated and weak to question his veracity. https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/news/2024/12/2024-year-in-review-cbsa-protecting-canadians-and-supporting-our-economy.html

That may be true with some Thais, but it does not change the fact that it is a colonial mentality. Thailand does have a colonial mentality when it comes to its neighbors with many Thais believing that they are superior to them.

You do not understand the law and are reading a partial translation. Go read the full law. Better yet, read a proper legal interpretation. If the person is Thai, and meets the lineage requirement ,his citizenship cannot be removed as it would render him stateless. The law allows for revoking citizenship only in regard to naturalized Thais and specifically with respect to a person who has Thai nationality, by reason of his having been born within the Thai Kingdom of an alien father, his Thai nationality may be revoked when it meets the conditions listed. As I stated previously, if Thailand could revoke citizenship, it would have done that to the Thaksin clan. Here is a good explanation of the law, from Siam Legal. https://library.siam-legal.com/thai-law/nationality-act-loss-of-thai-nationality-sections-13-22/

It is you who is off topic. The article discusses Canada's response to the tariffs and Trudeaus request to support local businesses and the resulting national solidarity. You went off on a tangent that Trudeau was late and that Canadians loathe him, neither of which was relevant. The fact is that there was nothing Canada could have done to have avoided the tariffs as the reason for them is unfounded. There is little if any fentanyl entering the USA from Canada, and the number of unauthorized migrants entering the USA from Canada is manageable and rather small. On the contrary, the USA allows fentanyl to enter Canada from the USA, along with firearms and other contraband, and more unauthorized migrants enter Canada from the USA than they do from Canada into the USA. Canadians are rallying in support of the Canadian response, not because they like Trudeau. Rather, they believe that they have been wrongly accused by the USA and want to fight back. They are rallying to the defense of their national pride. I sense that they are deeply hurt, probably almost as bad as when they lose an international hockey series to the USA. The sad part of the tariff mess is that it will distract from some of the positive measures Trump has undertaken.

Canadians are not rallying to support him, but are rallying to defend their nation from a bully. If they had any smarts, they would have emergency maintenance that interrupts the electricity to the USA during a critical part of Superbowl. A loss of electricity in the US grid would blackout New England and key Republican swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan, and would then cause cascading shutdowns as the power grid overloaded and had to shutdown to prevent damage. It's going to be a KC 3 peat, so no real harm if people can't watch. 🙂

That is your perception of his agenda and is a different subject than that of giving one of the contesting political parties a parliamentary majority. that is your biased position. It is not what he said. He did not ask for a one party state. He asked that his political party be given a parliamentary majority. You call him senile only because you disagree with him. And if he was senile, then you would have nothing to fear as the main would not be able to coherently communicate or to function.

Trump is bullying Canada, and it will most likely backfire, but he does have a point and to a certain degree, he is doing Canada a favour by forcing the issue. Canada's largest newspaper editorialists at the conservative Globe and Mail likened Canada to a 30 year old who has been living with his parents for too long and who needs to grow up. Trump is forcing Canadians to rethink their relationship with the USA and to take decisions on economic independence that should have been made decades ago. Immigration: Despite Trump's claim that Canada has allowed "millions and millions" of people to illegally enter the United States. US CBP data 2024 shows that the Border Patrol apprehended 23,721 people who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border, representing just 1.5% of nationwide Border Patrol apprehensions. In contrast, at the U.S.-Mexico border, Border Patrol reported more than 1.5 million apprehensions in the same year.* The insulting aspect of the claim is that MORE people have illegally crossed from the USA into Canada from the USA than the other way around. During the last Trump administration, US CBP was not impeding a flood of irregular migrants to Canada, particularly at the Roxham Rd crossing, which was inundated with hundreds on some weekends. Fentanyl: The data does not support the claim that Canada is a primary source of the drug entering the U.S. In Fiscal Year 2024, USCBP seized 21,148 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest border, mostly smuggled from Mexico. In contrast, only 43 pounds were intercepted at the northern border. This means that less than 1% of all fentanyl seizures occurred at the U.S.-Canada border. However, the US is a major source of the drug being smuggled into Canada. In 2024, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) seized approximately 10.8 pounds of fentanyl coming into Canada from the United States. It stopped 17.6 pounds of fentanyl being smuggled from Canada into the U.S. This suggests that the trafficking issue is not as one-sided as the administration claims.* Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2025/01/31/tariff-on-canada-not-justified-by-us-immigration-and-drug-claims/ https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-border-crosser-statistics.aspx Where Trump does have a point is on Canada' lax immigration visa and enforcement strategy. This is where many Canadians will be thanking Trump. For years there was a problem with Mexicans exploiting the visa free travel to Canada. They were not using it to enter the USA, but were going to Canada to claim refugee status by the thousands. Provinces were begging the federal government to stop it. Canada brought back stricter entry rules a year ago; Mexicans must - be eligible for an electronic travel authorization (eTA) - apply for a visitor visa (if they are not eligible for an eTA anymore) Canada has a big, big problem with foreigners who have exploited the immigration system and who have been enabled by greedy Canadians and the government itself. Until the government changed the rules, there were an estimated 2 million foreign students in Canada. They are supposed to come for an education and then leave, but they do not. Most are from India. They want to stay and file bogus refugee claims. Questionable educational institutions were recruiting the Indians and pocketing big profits. Added to this is the misused Temporary foreign worker program that technically had almost 800,000, but is estimated to really be closer to 1 million. And again added to this is the legal refugees and the illegal migrants estimated to add another 500,000 plus the annual legal immigration goal of 500,000. The end result has been a shortage in affordable housing, and an increased demand on an already taxed health care system. Quebec and Ontario are burdened with the refugees and have been diverting hundreds of millions of $ to their care and support: Money that has been diverted away from other social programs. And then there is national defense. The federal government has dragged its heels on spending on national defense. It had little choice as Canadians wanted dental care and day care before the country secured its air and northern borders, and ensured an ability to defend its waters from polluters and foreign fishing fleets. Vested interest groups would rather the country spend on foreign aid to despotic regimes than fund national defense. The country now only has 66 fixed wing fighter jets of which only 1/4 are believed operation ready to respond to an immediate threat. All this while Russia regularly flies nuclear armed borders to its northern airspace. And then there is Ukraine. Canada is going to reach $20 billion in aid to the country shortly. This amount is ignored by the USA, but it can be considered money spent for the benefit of US national interest. And as stupid as the US tariffs are, Canada is partly responsible. The federal government had 6+ years to fix the problem and ignored the warnings about its lax immigration and border policies. Now it is being forced to do something, but it will come at a cost to its economy. Yes, Trump may get a short term win, but I see from the international news that the Canadians have started booing the US national anthem at hockey games, and the anti american sentiment is growing. Americans forget that Canadians are nationalistic, proud and sensitive to insults from the USA. Canadians will respond and it won't be pretty. Maybe the US poking will be a good thing for Canada, but I expect it will end badly for the USA. Ask the Germans how it ended for them when they went to war with their cousins in Great Britain.

Note entirely, but it does have democratic institutions and the last election was a free vote. Thaksin was commenting on the need for one party to have a mandate from the people. What did he say then? I see the article reports that "former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called on voters to back the Pheu Thai Party exclusively. Thaksin argues that a single-party majority could fast-track government initiatives, suggesting that the current coalition governing structure is cumbersome and inefficient." This is quite different than what you think he said. What is wrong with asking for a mandate from the people? He is correct in his assessment of Thai coalition governments. They are typically formed after there are political tradeoffs. Some call that corruption. Every political party that participates in a parliamentary system seeks a majority government. No one ever has campaigned on forming a coalition government. Look at the political crisis in Belgium. Coalition related. Canada's parliament was crippled for the past year. Why? Minority government that had to placate another political party in order to get legislation passed. Israel has extremists in its cabinet. Why? Because the government is made up of a coalition of parties. The list of dysfunctional governments at the mercy of coalitions is long; France, Sweden, Nederlands, Germany and others. Coalitions look nice on paper, but they do not give long term stability and they just force important legislation to be delayed.