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14 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The problem is that the 14th Amendment does not define the disqualification process. So, any state could likewise remove Joe Biden from the ballot, if the process is ill defined.

Time for an emergency congress session to amend the amendment.

No prob -except for how to make it work only for Fatty but not for a democrat up the road? And constitutional amendment in an election year -no prob again, right?

The ball is already and play so the old rules must apply. The old rules are only a problem for Fatty; because of Fatty.

I say, tough luck, Fatty. What would Fatty say to you if the rules were going against you?

What's the plausible Biden insurrection case? There's no states rights-right to give anyone the heave ho just because they don't like their face.

People here are pretending there is -and then hilariously making vacuous and impotent threats against laughing in their faces-Biden.

Dream on, losers, your dope failed at his coup. And now he has to pay.

Yeah, thanks for that. It will amount to the same thing, but it is indeed not the same thing.

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Given Maine is likely to vote Democrat

Just for Laughs:

You get a choice of a Red State or a Blue State vacation, all expenses paid. You can pick:

Alabama, Texas, Florida -OR:

New York, California, Maine.

-As a lover of all things Red, you want to go to Alabama instead of New York, right?

On 12/30/2023 at 11:03 AM, Danderman123 said:

Not proven yet in a court of law.

Evidence was presented, insurrection was found. Was there a trial? No. 14th Amendment doesn't specify any need.

Repubs LOVE states rights when it comes to their pet issues like abortion and control. This is a states rights issue that is biting them on the ass. Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion years ago affirming that states rights are untouchable. Do states have the right to regulate their elections? The Constitution says yes.

In my heart and head, I believe that Trump should be told to pound sand on these issues (immunity too). My pragmatic self tells me that won't happen due to fearfully placating whiny Trump Trash and their always shifting (when he's losing) game posts. 

We are subverting the constitution as written to assuage the fee-fee's of people who crow about liberal tears -and don't care one whit about what the constitution says -if it doesn't go their way.

So even having this conversation about just exactly how much we're going to bend the written in stone rules for a bully who has never given an inch to the other side is proof that Trump has already won.

Interesting wrinkle: The Supremes wink at Diaper Boy and give him a pass on insurrection but not on immunity (most likely outcome).

Jack Smith then finds him guilty of insurrection. What about all those states who already called it and were disenfranchised if (I mean when) The Supremes overturn them?

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

 

 

For 2024. I have decided to stop responding to posters who lack good manners. No return fire, they just go straight onto my ignore list

 

I don't feel that we have enough warm bodies left still posting in this little internet backwater to ignore anyone.

Also: after porn, laughing at idiots is why the internet was invented.

I'm on a 30 day marijuana-fast. I'm hoping to dodge the increased clarity-bullet. Clarity -never exactly a pretty picture.

I don't love Electronic Dance Music (EDM), but it was great to go to what was EDM Mini-Woodstock. It's a massive non-mainstream musical taste and a venue like FMP will def bring in some semi-names.

Without drugs or dancing, it can be patience-testing. I think of it as disco on a budget. I'd liken it to: I don't love opera either, but if I went to Italy and a famous one was playing right down the street, I'd prob pop in. I like that you can go away from it and come back. All night.

All walks of life and ages on the beach together. I can't think of anywhere else where that happens. Much more egalitarian and cross-political than the hippies were. It's always portrayed very negatively, but a google image of Nottingham Saturday Night will show worse.

Prob 50% English, 20% N.Euro, 20% Yank, 10% Middle East; mostly couples, often EDM tourists who might also vacation in Ibiza or Tulum. Chiang Mai and Pai are also on their Thai itinerary for more of the same.

We made challah bread for our New York Jew landlord for Christmas. It had a proper brown crusty bottom and a proper rise due to a pizza stone. He keeps sending me French toast video's.

If you bake more then twice a year, get a stone. 5,000 years of baking history is on my side. And the stone gets better as it gets more burnt.

You want a dry, super-hot oven. That's why we put the sauce on lightly. Steam is the enemy of bread. A hot stone is the enemy of steam.

On 12/27/2023 at 12:38 PM, NextG said:

Fresh San Marzano tomatoes slow cooked for hours to create a tomato base. Not tinned, but fresh. 
 

We tried it, with tomatoes straight off the vine, but it was a lot of work for a slightly inferior version to canned.

Some ethnic foods deliberately include processed foods because that's the agreed upon taste. In New Orleans Cajun food, they use garlic powder AND fresh garlic. They like that earthy undertone of the powder. In Puerto Rican food, they make their own sofrito and scoop some out of a jar too. Most Indians (and Thai's) start with a glop of a curry mix and then customize from there. 

Purists are the enemies of gluttons.

On 12/27/2023 at 3:47 PM, spidermike007 said:

 

 

Putting a little bit of olive oil on the crust before baking it also helps a lot. 

Make that super-lite olive oil. Extra-virgin etc burns at lower temperatures. Dab that on at the end.

We're going up to 800 degrees with an extra pizza stone on the upper oven rack above to refract heat.

Any person here not using at least a single pizza stone needs to be mocked. I designate NextG for that needed task.

He's right about the better ingredients in Euro-land, but they don't fire up the oven hot enough. 

Woodfired works for me too. Why Not? Italian in Nimman gets in the ballpark.

I love pineapple-everything and eat a mini-pineapple a day for fiber. The prob with pineapple pizza: Too acidic when combined with tomato sauce. Otherwise, I have no objections. Adding ham to it furthermore makes it too salty.

I used to do a white pie (ricotta-base) with paper thin pineapple rounds (roasted, so not soggy), pine nuts, and gorgonzola dabs. Blue cheese and pineapple is a perfect combo. I think I'll have it on toast later on.

We had an oven at home that went up to 1,000 degrees F and during covid became complete pizza-ologists. You want a 2-day sour dough rise, San Marzano canned tomatoes and not much oregano etc, and def no fresh herbs until table side, if at all. To get a crust that is both thin and chewy takes some kneading technique. It's a genius food of 3 ingredients. Anything else is dead weight. 

I tend to be anti-toppings. If pushed, maybe some decent, non-canned olives or possibly mushrooms. You have to worry about it being too salty. There's plenty of salt in San Marzano canned tomatoes. We grew our own SM tomato's but the canned kind worked better for pizza. In my native Staten Island, there is the noble tradition of the Grandma Slice, where whatever is heaving in the garden (basil, plum tomato's) is heaped on top of a reg. slice. July to September; then Grandma is done.

Finally, I am disappointed here at the lack of snobbery about coal-fired ovens. They get the proper density of heat that nothing else provides. Outlawed now in New York, a few grandfathered-in shrines like John's in the village keep hope alive. After New York, and then after Staten Island (it's own pizza-world), New Jersey is indeed superb -no wait, there's the coal-fired Nirvana of New Haven too.

Anthony  Bourdain said that you have decide if you are a cheese or a sauce person. We are sauce people. We def go light on the cheese and substitute 50% parm cheese. I tend to pick excess mozzarella off my slice.  Deep-dish? Like a bowl of melty cheese? Yuck.

Most tourists are here for the cheap beach experience.

In America, with Mex, Florida, and The Carib close at hand, a 26 hour flight to get the beachfront room for 70% off is a hard sell.

That's why I love Chiang Mai. To come here, you have to have some cultural interest.

Of course, to 80% of the tourists here, a cultural interest means washing an elephant that's been already washed to death or taking a cooking class where they're smart enough not to let you handle an actual knife. We have marijuana and mushrooms everywhere now too for additional cultural experiences.

In Nimman, at least half of the tourists don't even bother with a look-in at The Old City. We have our own, classier night market, thank you.

Most people list eating and shopping as their #1 and #2 travel interests, so there's no need to leave this lovely little grid of 8 soi's between 2 busy roads.

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Enya. 

Absolutely the least likely Enja fan on earth.

Love John, and Elvin Bishop was my first rock concert (he was opening for Donny Hathaway). But John was def a bit of a shy mope.

A lot of people I might list would be a drain to even kill an hour with: Kafka, Picasso, Muddy Waters.

That's why I picked cheery, blissed out Alice Coltrane.

A lot of hippie humor has aged badly (talking to you, Cheech and Chong). And so has a lot of that soft, Bill Cosby, banal observational humor, of which "Mom always liked you best" being particularly laugh-proof these days. I recall the Bros more for having the white hot hippie acts of the day like The Doors on (even tho it was the worst Doors song ever).

Lenny Bruce -I loved his two books in high school, but he was terrible to watch or listen to on a record. He beat every bit into the ground, whereas in the books, his editors really helped him out. Dustin Hoffman in the film Lenny is much funnier and more bearable than Lenny ever was. Sort of like Joe Strummer: a one note try-too-hard.

For me, the comedy legend from Long Island is Howard Stern (one town over from Lenny). Just like Bruce grandly elevated my poor, suburban angst, Howard legitimized the crassness of idiots like me as worthy (see also: Andrew Dice Clay).

Check out Fah Lanna Spa.

They have a brutal massage with a thick piece of bamboo that's well within the Rolfing zone. Did it; fairly painful (but effective) -not running back.

It's only available at the Old City branch and requires booking ahead (1,600 baht per hour).

https://fahlanna.com/spa-menu/massage-10/

We did a thread here this year on the classic book: Hello My Big Honey -Love Letters to Bargirls. Published in '93. It's recently been reprinted by White Lotus Press, which means it has academic library value.

The legend is that the hottie on the cover used to pose in front of Nana holding the book for dates -and that she died of AIDS (unverified).

10 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The peak of the rent a girl friend was IMO in the 90s

 

No diss, but when did you last set foot in Thailand? 

A woman I know clears a grand a day working at a pot store (goodlooking, western-friendly etc). That guy I love here on the 10K a month plan is an anomaly -and in a long-term marriage.

Can JoeBlow still hop off the plane and enjoy sex on tap for $10 a day?

Maybe in Laos. I got several proposals there in June. But those women would be straighter in bed than Mormons.

I'd want change back from the tenner.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No mention in the linked article about the biggest scam- drug dealers report customers to the cops who arrest them. Mucho money in that scam.

 

Nor a warning about hiring m'bikes as the hill to get to the beach has seen many end up in bandages

TBL is still partying (in his long ago memories) like it's:

Alice Coltrane

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/arts/music/alice-coltrane-jazz-music.html

On 12/26/2023 at 10:13 PM, persimmon said:

 

The days of 10 k bt, per month have long gone .

According to an esteemed contributor here, he's still on the 10K baht plan. Maybe he was uh, grandfathered in?

Last go-round on this tho, 30K seemed to the post-Covid #. Always an evergreen topic to kick around.

On 12/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, Mike Lister said:

 

All of those girls were looking for nothing more than a foreign husband and some security in their otherwise impoverished lives. They didn't threaten them

Agreed. If you are having sex with very poor people -who have all the usual problems of very poor people- it's unrealistic to expect them not to want/hope for a little of the cash that literally just falls out of your pockets.

$10 a day (old rate?) for a girlfriend? I could prob find that in my sofa cushions. 

Is it for Mama, lotto tickets, or a new, enticing tube top? Who knows? Give or don't; but skip the moralizing.