jerrymahoney

A Central Nong Khai would not be copying the West. It would be copying Central Khon Kaen and Central UdonThani

Well if your point is that now farangs are the NIMBY * folks in Isaan, that might make sense. * Not in my back yard

My opinion has nothing to do with it. The Central site location folks will have an area growth projection and decide whether the area can support a mall even if it takes 5 or 10 years to break even.

So the locals won't have to drive or take the train to UdonThani?

Nothing in the US Constitution would prevent him from running his Presidency from a convalescent home -- although the White House could certainly be turned into one if needs be.

Joe Biden first was an official candidate for US President in 1988. As now the incumbent first term President, unless he voluntarily decides not to stand for a second term, there are few if any options for the Democrats to run someone else in 2024. And it seems Joe, after being in the Presidential politics game for almost 40 years, doesn't seem like he is going to walk away from it all now. 1988 Campaign logo:

Old film camera negatives converted to CD-ROM about 15 years ago.

My apologies. I didn't realize you had a point.

You can actually see the black sandbag in this picture. It was holding down one of the teleprompter screens.

You seem not to realize that there were 2 separate civil cases filed by Ms. Carroll. The one generally referred to as Carroll 1 complaint was filed in 2019 when Trump was still President. Carroll II is the 2022 complaint that was filed after NY State provided a special reprieve on statute of limitations and to which the jury gave the verdict. The current proposed amended claim only involves the 2019 Carroll I. The 2022 claim jury in the trial you reference has nothing to do with it. That trial is now in appeal mode. What is currently at issue, in part, is whether Judge Kaplan will allow the Carroll team to amend their 2019 defamation-only complaint to say "sexually abused" instead of "rape".

Per the above: Nov 24, 2022 version original complaint Carroll II Paragraph 1. Roughly 27 years ago, playful banter at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in New York City took a dark turn when Defendant Donald J. Trump seized Plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, forced her up against a dressing room wall, pinned her in place with his shoulder, and raped her. May 22, 2023 version. proposed amendment to complaint Carroll 1 1999 Paragraph 2. Roughly 27 years ago, what began as playful banter at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in New York City took a dark turn when Trump seized Carroll, forced her up against a dressing room wall, pinned her in place with his shoulder, and sexually assaulted her.

That was a stock photo - this is one I actually took somewhere around 1993

When I am in Bangkok for short visits, I am usually near the Victory Monument, and there is extensive use of the tiles for the blind:

OK but there is one nearby large 7-11 in particular where before I go in there -- even still with the COVID masks -- I have to say to myself: Now Mahoney. Behave yourself!

Trump fights to keep the word 'rape' in E. Jean Carroll's remaining defamation case May 27, 2023 Carroll wants to amend her remaining lawsuit by removing the word 'rape' and adding new alleged defamations. His lawyers plan to argue that since a jury has now rejected her rape claim, Trump rightfully called her a liar. Carroll's proposed amended complaint "substitutes every reference of the word 'rape' and replaces it with 'sexual assault,'" Trump attorney Alina Habba writes in the filing, addressed to US District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the presiding judge for Carroll's two defamation suits. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fights-keep-word-rape-in-e-jean-carroll-case-2023-5

Photo from NY Times coverage of Desantis's swing 30 MAY thru Iowa:

The other big racially-tinged event in Trump's political outcoming was his stance and paid ad in the "Central Park Jogger" case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case Also: Exonerated Central Park Five defendant calls Trump indictment ‘karma’ 03/31/23 https://thehill.com/homenews/3927954-exonerated-central-park-five-defendant-calls-trump-indictment-karma/ This was Trump's May 1, 1989 ad -- for unreadable text of ad go here https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-letter-central-park-five-19890501

Just to note that Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating possible federal criminal indictments. The NY State criminal 'hush money' indictment and the possible election interference charges in Georgia are state crimes and not subject to federal Presidential pardon.

This is one of the 2 pools (same company) I used in Khon Kaen for 10+ years. Now I live in a mooban with a 25m salt water pool that -- at least in the mornings starting 6 AM -- is almost like my private pool.

But generally UNpopular with the same repeat posters.

I don't leave 800K in a Thai bank account. I just transfer 65K+ every month.

Yes -- I was there for 2 weeks but not a surfer.

As I said, "I go along in spirit" with the FCPA in that I prefer not to get involved in bribing foreign government officials.

While one should never say never -- as an American, I go along in spirit with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA 1977) against the bribing of non-US government officials.