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Can't really make heads or tails from that picture. My wife said she may have seen something like that when she was young (30 years ago ). I have seen "one of a kind" things in Thailand before. Related, I saw a butterfly, huge, about the size of your two hands making a butterfly, bright orange only once in my 12 years living here.

18 minutes ago, rumak said:

I have to admit.  Though i haven't even left Thailand in 12 years,  and i have a retirement extension using the money in bank method .............. I am starting to get a bit uneasy.

I do not purchase health insurance from the insurance conglomerate.   I pay for my health care with

my own funds.    Will people like me be the next target ?

I also worry about that. I keep feeling like I am dodging a bullet with my name on it.

22 minutes ago, Sujo said:

And in an absoute no surprise report. Trumps team, with exactly zero scientific knowledge changed the cdc reports to suit trumps narrative.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-officials-interfered-cdc-reports-232114037.html

Makes you wonder at what point someone should be arrested for advocating the over throw of the government.

16 minutes ago, Maktian D said:

Not sure how many folks here are american .  but  as a american I know  a win for Biden is a win for China .  Trump is the first president who removed nafta,   put tariffs on china . make nato member pays there fair share . and the list keeps going on.   He is the only savior of whatever littls is left of america ( with all these flag burning.  america heating culture that is going on )  . 

Trumps idea?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/08/trumps-false-claim-that-clinton-only-recently-pledged-to-renegotiate-nafta/

18 minutes ago, J Town said:

The problem this election is Biden is the great "meh." He is Republican lite. Bernie is pushing him hard to support universal health care like all the cool countries do. Biden will resist because he's just another old white guy 1 percenter in Big Pharma's pocket. This will not excite the independents who are needed in any election, being the largest voting group. You are absolutely correct in that it is the hatred for 45 that is driving this election.

I agree Biden is not exciting. But almost anyone else that was running would have been beaten over the head with the fear factor stick of "extremist, leftest". It is being used on Biden, but he is so middle of the road, its hard to get it to stick.

21 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

So, not by much then. Hillary was ahead before the election too. It's a long time till the election in political terms. Still anyone's guess IMO.

In the last election I was kind of happy to see Trump get the Rep nomination. I would say "Hillary is so hated, that anyone except Trump would win against her". Well, I was half right. This time around the hate factor is running in reverse. There really isn't a "Never Biden" group as such. No more "lock him/her up" chants. The pollsters, have looked at where they went wrong last time in their sampling and have tried to fix it. Have they? Only time will tell.

I have no doubt that they did, but the two arguments I thought worth noting was dirt falling directly off the wheels of the cart they were driving around in with no dust in the low gravity, and the static cross hairs painted on the lenses of filming camera changing from black to white when they went across a dark area.

27 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:

Understand that, but again wouldn't you be better quarantining and testing BEFORE departure?

Yes it would be better, but how would that be done. Tested, quarantined, and then transported to your plane without coming into contact with any other people?

On 9/5/2020 at 9:03 AM, Kelsall said:

Interesting timing.  Election in a matter of weeks.  ????

Its politics. I am sure there will be more "interesting timing" from both sides as the date gets closer.

8 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Kenosha guys self defense claim is backed up by video evidence. 
 

Antifa murderers claim is not backed up by video evidence. 

Point me to the video of the first guy he shot. I have only seen the one of him being chased and shooting the second two.

I live rural, so the usual

The driving

101 kinds of ants

dogs and chickens running a mock

I understand some Thai, but everyone speaks to me in Lao or Korat.

Village announcements so loud and then repeated 3 times to be sure everyone  (can't) hear.

Those--in order--orange biting centipedes, biting snakes, scorpions.

13 hours ago, geisha said:

I think they’re going to use them to pick up the tourists for the new island scheme .

Since they are making the old prisons tourist attractions, I could see myself paying for an up and down ride at the dock.

On 8/13/2020 at 11:37 AM, Tounge Thaied said:

I am 52 and have thought that I would enroll in this global emergency evacuation flight insurance program so that I could be flown back to my home country when I need a major health care emergency.

https://www.globalrescue.com/

Had a friend used them after he broke his hip in Morocco. Flew him back to the US in a private company Lear jet by way of Canada. The yearly price for the service was  really not that bad.

24 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

It sounds unlikely, there must have been an underlying medical condition.

You can't run until you die without having some sort of heart defect.

I'm with you on that one. I had a young woman working for me back in the states. Looked healthy, ran everyday. One day she was found on the side of the road. She didn't die but found out she had a heart condition. She now has a pacemaker.

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Did you file a 2019 1040?

 

How was the deposit coded? IRS TREAS 310   DES: TAX REF?

 

Interest was paid on refunds this year, but in my case that was included in the one single direct deposit (Refund + interest). We have to delcare that interest on this year's return.

 

 

 

 

I think you are right. I forgot that I had reported a small 1099 that I got for advice I had given on a building  project.. I had gotten my refund also months ago.

This is odd. My bank just got a stimulus direct deposit for something just over $9 from the IRS. I received my $1200 months ago.

I remember years back where a man threw a rope over the top of his house to do some work on the other side. Tied the rope to the bumper of his car and the other end around his body when he got on the roof. It took 3 blocks to stop his wife on the way to the store.. After reading that I have always been more careful what I tie anything to.

I would imagine that the devices and the control that are used today are more precise than in the 20s. Not saying it couldn't have been higher, but you can see how the reading it self could be called into question.

18 minutes ago, Siamjim said:

however again we see only what they want us to see...they never mentioned the recovery rate has also gone up in the 2.5 mil

 

If you don't die you have only one other choice.