GammaGlobulin

Yes. And also, I very much doubt that the DAR would have her, either... Besides this, she has a stepdaughter who was named after Ella Fitzgerald ! Who does that? When I was young, we had a housemaid who was named Ella. Yes, a beautiful person, but she was black. Harris' father was/is an Afro-Jamaican Catholic, who uses mathematical modeling to poke holes in accepted Economic theory. Everybody KNOWS that the Field of Economics is no more than some sort of TRUMPED Up Pseudo Science !!! And then, her mother was born in Madras, India, a place where I once was able to buy fantastic Madras Shirts of Exceptionally good Madras cotton. Now, they don't pick as much cotton in Dem parts, it seems. I still wish I could buy the same quality cotton shirts as I once could buy, about 55 years go, produced in Madras. In fact, if I were able to do some sort of Deal with the Devil... Then, I would gladly allow Harris to be elected, in turn for .... My being able to buy as many Madras shirts as I liked... At the same price as I once did.. And of the exact same quality, too. Those old cotton shirts that used to come out of Madras, India were truly of EXCEPTIONAL quality. Maybe we should elect Harris's MOTHER for PREZ. I bet, knowing that she taught at Stanford, she never speaks in Word Salads. Note: I don't think she actually TAUGHT there, but was some sort of "research scientists" there... She grew up in Tamil, Nadu, where they have this beautiful temple structure:

Yes. Trump is just trying to limit and reduce the risk that America (the US) could slide and spiral enough that it would become the new South Africa of the world.

That is a "bar" graph. Everybody knows that "bar" graphs are often biased. That's why both words begin with a B, as in B-girl.

Yet, still, Trump was unfairly treated and unjustly maligned. This is a very unfair world in which we live.

None of the above!

I do not understand. These risks that others understand are over-rated. Harris is the riskier candidate.

I have yet to have a massage in Thailand, of any flavor. I just do not have the time for it. Also, in my neighborhood, where my house is located, I have not seen any massage parlors. What do they look like in my neck of the woods...ie....The Province of Chiang Mai, but not in center city. Do they have any massage parlors nearby, I wonder? I would like to have a massage in Thailand before I die.

'Vile' is the watchword...maybe...

Nice one!

a woman who speaks in word salads Harris has often been criticized for her Word-Salad approach to public speaking.

I never enjoyed politics....and even thinking about politics gives me hives. As well, it seems to me that 2024 is shaping up to be our most vile year, so far. Global Warming is on track to destroy organized human civilization, just as Ehrlich predicted, back in 1968. Yet, collectively, human behavior has not only not changed for the better, but has become even more destructive. If you wish anyone commenting here to project positivity about the future prospects for the human race, then perhaps you are asking too much. I wish I could be more optimistic and still be realistic.

Yes. there is always the possibility that this might be true. Therefore, before posting anything I know in a comment on The Farang Pub, I first pass it through a filter. The filter I use is called: The Scientific Method Also, I never allow my personal beliefs, nor my cultural beliefs, or any other non-evidence-based filters, to influence the truths that I add to the forum. The only filter of value, which I call The Great Filter, is the filter that comes naturally when we meticulously apply... The Scientific Method I wish that everyone in government would do the same.

I know what I know. But, even I don't know everything.

You can always take your Black Music with you. Who does not just love this culture? Probably The Salad Woman can't understand the first thing about it. They don't have great music like this in India. Dave Brubeck:

Yes. Very offensive unless.... It's The Color Purple... Whoopi Goldberg was saying. “Nobody else would understand the things that would drive me crazy.” Don't worry, Whoopi... AT LEAST, the Guys on TV's Farang Pub understand you....

If you want to know what life with Elon might look like on Mars, just take a look at his dorm room, at The Quadrangle, at Penn.... Those were, indeed, far happier times... I wish I could go back. Just about the only place I was happy in the USA... Besides The Main Line.... The rest of the USA is a dump... (slight hyperbole, perhaps, yet nearly true). Images taken from this site: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-never-seen-before-candid-pictures-university-girlfriend-2022-9#another-example-of-musk-goofing-around-4

Take Five, Man! Better....

I never said that the concept of race is valid, from a science perspective. I only say that some animals are members of a sub-species of hominids. Not all hominids alive today are sapiens, you know.

Even more devious than...say.... Rasputin? If the Americans (please leave me out of this election) were to elect The Salad Woman, They will RUE THE DAY! It's in the stars!

Not so fast. There are also many Democrats that will NEVER, ever, vote for the Word-Salad Woman. Not even the first time! There is just no way that the Salad Chef will ever rise to the office of POTUS. No way. The gods are against it. Although, it certainly is true that all candidates are garbage, yet if one is to vote, one must just hold ones nose and vote for the least smelly garbage of them all. So sad that the democrats actually did have the opportunity, in late 2023...to find a highly qualified candidate among the many potential candidates available. They chose, instead, to not do so. INSTEAD, We all got the .... BAIT AND SWITCH. Bait and Switch. The Salad Woman instead of Fuming Joe. They are ALL nothing but flimflam artists and hucksters. Bait and Switch....BIG TIME... The Switcheroo had been planned for many months, and it was all a scam. Easy to see now that it has happened.

Who do you think wrote it? Talk about a strange question. Who do you think writes the comments posted by GammaGlobulin? Gamma writes them.

I can easily accept and appreciate many different types of art that is not pornographic, and I take exception to the Afro-american, Garbage-gutter and Black-prison-derived, Crack-Head-Hoe type Slum-Rap music which is causing great tragedy among the youth of this generation, and in society in general. This music is very dark, and sung/performed for the purpose of gaining FING Bling. Perhaps this music is a sign of the sins of our past, namely Black American Slavery and Slave Ships. In fact, almost no dirty deed goes unpunished if we wait long enough. And, for sure, America has been punished, for hundreds of years, with the aftereffects of the enslavement of the Black Africans. The descendants of America's slaves will never forgive The White Man. And, even today, the vast majority of America's young black males are held captive in the ghettos of American cities, prisoners of their past, and of their inability to gain an education, and their pornographic values. Culturally speaking, it's almost impossible to interact with these young black bucks that now carry guns and sell drugs in their hoods. In fact, drug-selling and drug-taking is their only economy in town, their only means to support themselves. And, it is only natural for them to wish to glorify and romanticize their Ghetto-life Lives through their Garbage Music. They know no better. They have lived in their Alien Ghetto world their entire lives...and they don't know no better. EVEN IF you were to try to take a black child out of the ghetto and send them to one of the premier, mostly white, boarding schools in the North East of the USA, these children, no matter if one or two outliers might be halfway intelligent, would fail and wish to return to what they know best, the trash and crime-ridden streets where they were born, and where they were exposed to the dregs of their garbage lives. I feel no need to read their trash books, or listen to their trash music which is fundamentally dark and pessimistic. The main REASON we feel affinity for some forms of music rather than other forms of music is primarily cultural. The Salad Woman, and those like her, is a product of the new culture in America. This cannot be changed, and there is no point in trying to change it. The era of the Great White Man is at an end. White Men will always retain power in America. But it will be those from low-class urban and suburban ghettos who will rule the streets of America. We need more gated communities, obviously. And, for sure, we need to build a higher and stronger wall than Trump had ever dreamed of. We do not have a choice. The browning of America began long in the past. I do not see this as being inherently good or bad. It just is. I prefer the cultures of Asia, specifically East Asia, and a bit of SE Asia. African-American culture should be relegated to where the sun don't shine. I will remain happy in Asia. And, my fellow Americans can enjoy living with the Africans in America, which is only the result of their past sins.. I am perfectly fine with that. I will dine on fine Asian food. And my fellow-Americans which I long-ago left behind can suffer their fare of watermelon, fried chicken, and greens. Nothing will change, do what they will.

And, there is quite a nice interview by Charlie Rose with Ang Lee, the author of Ice Storm, and the producer, too..... Here.... Truly a Masterpiece, in my view, as I said. I found the novel, Ice Storm, on the net, for free, in the epub format. Maybe I will read it this evening. Such an amazing film... Also, I had forgotten that Ang Lee (LiAn) was born in PingDong...Taiwan. I had thought Tainan, but Tainan is not very far north of PingDong, which was truly a rural area when LiAn was born there. Very strange, I feel, that he traveled to the USA, and then stayed there, and then found this book ICE Storm...and what were the odds?

When we talk about cultural identity, which I think is the thrust of this Topic, meaning how culture is an integral part of all politics, I think this often does include fine art, and classical music, and more importantly the appreciation of beauty, meaning aesthetics. My first choice for lengthy listening is always classical music, and I prefer Baroque music, and chamber music, and I am sure that you know the composers that have given us this music, over the centuries. Of course I also enjoy good popular music, and good jazz music, but you can hold the gospel, unless you might be talking Blues Brothers Gospel music. But, at least for me, I am unable to listen to pop or jazz for more than a short period of time before I always come back to classical music, mainly because I care about the beauty of it, and the uplifting nature of it. The same goes for fine art. I prefer Monet, and Manet, and Munch, and the rest. Van Gogh is amazing, especially his peach tree which I can enjoy on any given Sunday, and it is possible to appreciate every single brush stroke, just be visiting the VanGogh Museum's website. I find the present-day culture an affront to good taste. It's OK for a brief period of time. Yet, if our cultural roots continue to erode, then we will end up with even more presidential candidates like Trump and Harris in the future. Disgusting, really, the candidates that have somehow come upon us this strange year.

I see. But, in fact, you do not seem as if you are a native-English speaker. Maybe you are just a native who speaks English?