Callmeishmael

My grandparents lost a total of 3 out of 13 children back in the 1920s. Vaccines would have saved those kids. As my oldest aunt once told me: "In those days everyone lost one or two".

Many, if not most, middle-class boys go through an Army Reserve Training when they are in high school. This exempts them from the draft. So the actual draftees are heavily skewed towards the working class/rural kids.

Except that Trump loves the military and usually gives them more money than they even ask for. Aside from cutting the DEI programs he will probably add a 4th supercarrier fleet! Don't expect DOGE to touch the Defense budget, which is probably the most bloated and wasteful part of the Federal Government!

Dear God! In addition to the uneven sidewalks I now have to worry about GG touching me?? That's it, I'm giving up walking in Thailand! 😜

I can speak and read Thai fairly well. One problem I have is all the regional dialects. If I drive for two hours away from Bangkok everyone sounds like they are speaking an entirely different language. My wife wants to move up north when I retire, but I'm not looking forward to having to learn Phasa Nua!

It could be worse... Just what would he do if he found himself in a toilet with no tissue paper!

So you're saying that the problems that California faces are based on color/ethnicity? I agree that California is no longer livable, but that's because of over crowding and cost of living, not the fact that my neighbors were Chinese rather than white Southern Baptists!

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Interesting screenshot. However you cut out part of the description: Notice the last line: Hight for factual reporting. Now let's take a look at a pro-Trump media outlet:

I did Cambodian border runs when I first came to Thailand about 23 years ago. While waiting for my stamp at the border I noticed people just walking across the border a hundred or so meters away. It was only the need for proper stamps in your passport that made you use a border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia!

Was your ex-wife from Issan? Lots of people from central or southern Thailand are quite prejudiced and look down upon people from Issan, they often view them as 'Thai hillbillys'. She may consider you to be lo-so because you learned to speak Thai with an Issan accent.

Likewise. I've worked with and been friends with many Latinos and they don't do FGM, aren't religious extremists, are very family oriented and are usually very hard workers. If the US has to be flooded with immigrants, I would rather they be Latino than some of the other alternatives.

Back in 2000 there were widespread concerns about the reliability of electronic voting machines. After the Supreme Court awarded Florida to Bush, Gore decided to not pursue questions about the voting machines simply because casting doubt on the electoral outcome would be too divisive. His decision to stand by the public results in 2000 was mirrored by Pence's actions in 2020. Two men on opposite sides of the political spectrum who decided to put any person doubts aside and preside over their own defeats.

The Thai Air Force will probably order a dozen of those useless F35s to even up the trade imbalance!

Making the world safe for Liberian shipping!