jerrymahoney

Sure but mine's different (A standard response to your standard pay-them-a-salary post)

You could call them 'Village Person' as Victor Willis, the lead singer, is the only original 'Village People' member left -- and he is not gay.

My standard line: You don't find a Thai partner; they find you.

No way to say how many of those who evacuated, if they had stayed, would be charcoal.

The flip-side: Eaton Fire victim dies holding a hose, defending home Updated: Jan 9, 2025 / 02:34 AM PST -- One of the five confirmed fatalities from the destructive Eaton Fire was identified on Wednesday morning when his family found his body on the side of the road by their home – with a garden hose still in his hand. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/eaton-fire-victim-dies-holding-a-hose-defending-home/

... and other photos: Eight wildfires have ravaged portions of Los Angeles County as of Saturday morning, displacing more than 150,000 people who have had to evacuate or have lost their homes. In the face of the unprecedented disaster, national companies, local businesses, nonprofits, individuals and communities are coming together to provide resources, supplies and services for free or at discounted rates for victims of the emergency. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/heres-a-list-of-free-and-discounted-resources-for-victims-of-los-angeles-area-fires

Governors of California prior to the current Governor Gavin Newsom:

And on the flip-side --

Other than this post to Thailand, most of the Ambassador's 40-year foreign service career has been either physically located in or serving in State Department roles dealing with what President-Elect Trump has referred to as '<deleted>hole countries'.

I don't know -- his two previous full-ambassadorships were in Africa.

Coarse or not, they ask you what you would like on your sandwich and many things are NOT extra charge.

Without saying this happened this instance, in some shops Subway or others, the sandwich maker will say: "Would you like guacamole on that?" And you say SURE without it being said that the guacamole is extra charge.

No. He held ambassador positions in both the GW Bush and first Trump administrations.

Just heard from my friend of 50+ years in Laurel Canyon that she is OK -- only one evacuation -- but friends of hers have been wiped out.

This is the one of personal interest to me -- looking better: Sunset fire 100% contained, evacuation orders lifted in Hollywood Jan. 9, 2025 Updated 10:46 PM PT Los Angeles firefighters reached 100% containment on the Sunset fire Thursday, which had triggered mandatory evacuation orders and massive traffic jams in Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills late Wednesday. “It’s a miracle that no homes burned here,” one firefighter told The Times on Wednesday evening. Hours earlier, the flames had approached the mansions that line North Curson Avenue. By 10:30 p.m., flames were barely visible on the distant hillside. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/firefighters-make-big-gains-battling-sunset-fire-which-forced-evacuations-in-hollywood

True to the above. This ain't horseshoes.

Chief Justice Roberts and AJ Barrett denying the Trump request.

And you don't have to rename Lake Superior because, to Trump, he already is.

They are doing the same in Florida.

I attended a meet & greet with the US Ambassador last August and he said that embassy officials are definitely engaged in discussions with Thai Revenue on the matter. But he said that was all he could say at the time.

Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa, which has been in the port management business since 1863, operates the Panama Canal container port. Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) operates across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. It operates in five of the seven busiest container ports in the world, handling 13% of the world's container traffic. Hutchison Whampoa operates container terminals in Panama, as well as Mexico and other parts of the Americas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchison_Whampoa

I am a paid subscriber. There is always the non-paywall archive version if I'm willing to make the effort which these days I don't.

I read the Hanson link in the OP. Less than 140-character summary: Trump et al were not the threat to democracy; those who opposed were the threat to democracy.

... and should anyone suggest that the President-Elect spoke anything inappropriate, there is the general-purpose response: That's just Trump-being-Trump

If "some folks" were prevented from starting topics with a link to the NY Post or Fox News 'twould go a long way to the above. NB I stopped starting posts with the NY Times because the first reply was most always NYTimes? NYTIMES??? what about Hunter's laptop, HUH?