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Sure, follow the process. Any top picks for a DEM candidate who might win. There will be no incumbent so it's all wide open!

Voting people approaching 80 years of age into the presidency was never a great idea. I don't know any 80 year olds who are in peak performance mode. Not one, ever. The oldest person ever elected President was Biden until Trump won again - now he holds the record. I think when Vance runs next time around which I'm sure he will it will be a nice reset back to someone a little more youthful, his opponent would also hopefully be a lot younger. A job like the presidency is not suited to someone who should be retired. It's a younger mans game.

Yes, those cold cases where they find some small piece of DNA which couldn't be matched before. They were married, so DNA isn't going to cut it. New witnesses after all this time? Circumstantial at best. Unless they have something on video of course.

Yes, I've read about that, I think it's end of year or early next year some time.

The "de minimis" exemption for anything coming from Thailand should be set to the exact same amount Thailand uses. I seem to remember an announcement some time last year that they will be charging taxes on anything worth even 1 Baht when it enters Thailand - which sounds fair. And sales tax should be added in the state of the recipient - just like VAT is applied to all of Thailand on any imports, plus the shipping cost. So a 3 cent allowance seems very generous to me.

Do you have to 'declare' a movie prop because it looks like something it's not?

So they had no evidence of this in the past but now they do have evidence of what exactly? Did they find some missed cctv footage out on the lake? I have to wonder if having life insurance is now an automatic murder charge when someone dies, there had better be some solid evidence in this case or the life insurance industry is going to be in big trouble. Edit: We should bear in mind that if they had any evidence prior to this then they would have simply asked Thailand to return him which they would have done by cancelling his visa and putting him onto a plane like they often do.

He wasn't thinking at all, like most of the posters here

He was in the domestic terminal, you think they fly to Australia from there? Even if he had a separate flight on to Australia from BKK he would have needed to go through international level security again.

They may have been relics from old wars, explosive parts removed so only empty shells. People collect this kind of stuff all the time. Of course, if they were not properly prepared then it would be very dangerous to handle such things, especially as they appear to be very old if those images are the items in question here.

The pharmacy I use in Hua Hin has a sign instructing people NOT to remove shoes before entering - it's in English and you can't miss it. It's not her home, it's a public place of business and she understands that.

Nobody is required to remove shoes in public spaces. When was the last time you saw a thousand pairs of shoes outside a busy shopping mall?

Indeed. These are public places, not private spaces - there is a big difference. I don't like removing my shoes when entering anywhere which is a public place and never do. Why? Because my $200 shoes have laces, are hard to replace when stolen as I need to order them from the US and I also wear socks all the time - with zero exceptions. So I am expected to either remove the socks as well or subject them to the 'filthy' floor inside the store - and yes, despite the no shoe rule the floors are absolutely filthy even though you can't see it. I know this because the time I did remove my shoes all the dirt collected on the socks I wear. So I've been in dozens of normal and high end restaurants over the last decade or two while in Thailand and nobody is ever requested to remove their shoes, all the staff are wearing shoes as well.

Yep 100% - there are people out there who will never drive on or near that road again.

Indeed, I understand the math, there's probably more chance of crashing on the flight into Bangkok that having a lump of concrete landing on the car - but it's the Thai Mrs who is insisting on this. She's not alone - from what she's saying that route must be the fastest highway in the country these days as half the country are now actively avoiding the route for 'reasons'. Bad spirits, bad mojo - you name it - it's all there!