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Obviously, we're having similar weeks! Oh death where is your sting??

20 hours ago, RBOP said:

How did he get a gun into court?

Think carefully now....slowly.....he's the Judge!

On 10/5/2019 at 6:21 AM, Samui Bodoh said:

I think this is instructive; notice that there really is no argument in favour the rectitude of his actions, but rather a focus on delay and obfuscation. And, this is the problem; the White House/the Republicans have lost all sense of right and wrong, all sense of ethics and all sense of 'Doing The Right Thing' in favour of power for power's sake

 

The real villain here is the Republican party. Yes, Trump has done horrible, immoral, illegal things and will continue to do so until his ass is tossed in jail, but that is Trump. It is the Republican party that enables him. And, it is the Republican party that will pay the price long after he is gone.

 

There are good Republicans; Romney, Sasse, Porter, Burr and more. But, as long as they play along and allow Trump to flout the law and convention, they are as guilty as he is. Further, all those Senators ran on principles of Good Governance, Rule of Law, Free Trade, the Constitution, Limited Government and Executive Power etc, and they are just cowardly allowing Trump to walk all over those things. There is going to be a vote on Trump's impeachment, and that vote is going to define political careers well into the future (had Hillary voted against the Iraq war, she likely would have beaten Obama in 2008).

 

Be careful Republicans, be very careful. What you do over the next few months is going to affect you for decades to come. And, if you tie your future to Trump, then you'll wear that mark on your forehead like a 'shame' tattoo forever.

 

I have said it before and will say it again;

 

Donald Trump is an ever-expanding cloud of toxic waste that defiles everything it touches.

 

Keep your distance or get splashed...

 

 

 

 

But don't you realise that by continuing in this vane you're dooming your next successful candidate? If the Ukraine President says he wasn't pressured let it go at that...if you succeed in impeaching Trump you get Pence, who would you rather deal with? Pence becomes POTUS and pardons Trump, Trump is made VP, Pence resigns! Now you have a really angry POTUS! The Dem's must be on crack cocaine or something, there actions just don't make political sense!

On 10/3/2019 at 9:50 PM, Matzzon said:

Another one that wants off the grid. The next question will be, were it´s possible to find solar cell panels.

There you go again!   ????

16 hours ago, brokenbone said:

its the kinda stuff i fancy

Maybe you'd look a little silly wearing it in Big C?   ????

17 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

In my area of Kalasin Province I'd estimate that we've had less than a month-worth of days when it's rained during the entire wet season, May to now. And now it's nearly over. Not great.

In Phrae we received 39mm for the entire month of September! August was terrific, mobs of rain! It looks like it will be a serious drought region for the next year? I even hand washed the car and watered the garden! Huey the rain god has let me down! 

3 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Yes, but if you bought a condo 3 years ago with the 50k, its now worth $75,000 in $AU.

Try selling it? They'll have to pay you in overpriced baht! Renting in VN is looking better all of the time!

Absolute nonsense! What about the foreigners who transfer money every month to and from their accounts to comply with the idiotic rules of the Immi. dept. who say they only measure money coming into the account? The usual amount that is examined is at least over aud$10K in the rest of the world!  

17 hours ago, sanemax said:

What makes you think that they were prostitutes ?

And what is the connection between having your legs bent and prostitution ?

....................Or did you just want to mention prostitution ?

Get out of bed late this morning.......?

2 hours ago, candide said:

The (very good, lol) fired prosecutor is a crook who was not fighting corruption!

Ukraine's former Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has categorically rejected claims by Donald Trump concerning Mr Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden.

"Mr Klimkin told the BBC that the prosecutor was sacked for corruption. A number of Western bodies, including the EU, had pushed for the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to be sacked, he said."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49856788

 

Actually, the case against Burisma had been closed in 2012.

 

But it said the period under investigation was 2010-2012, and noted that this was before the company hired Hunter Biden.

“Changes to the board of Burisma Limited, which are currently the object of international attention, took place only in May 2014, and therefore are not and never were the subject of (the anti-corruption bureau’s) investigation,” the bureau’s statement said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-ukraine-buris/ukraine-agency-says-allegations-against-burisma-cover-period-before-biden-joined-idUSKBN1WC1LV

 

Then why did Joe say what he said in the interview?

Reuters got this info off the AP wire and it's wrong in it's second para when it says "unsubstantiated" when it speaks of Biden influencing the Ukraine government! The proof came out of Joe's mouth in a television interview, he boasted about it!

15 hours ago, sandyf said:

The trains run about every 20 minutes, the line is only a couple of hundred yards from my house. Been dual track now for about 5 years.

The problem is there is only the one passenger train a day the rest are freight. It leaves BKK around 06.30 and i think terminates near Sattahip, then returns to BKK. It is free to the Thais and very cheap for the foreigner, think I was 23 baht Chonburi to BKK.

It is relatively quick from Pattaya to Chonburi, about an hour, same as driving. It is further down the line it becomes slow, stopping at every small station on the way.

Travelling by VIP bus takes 4 hours from Pattaya via Sri racha, Au "something", Chonburi, chat chun sao to get anywhere near equal to BKK...a nonsense trip!

9 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

I watched this hearing live on Bloomberg. It was truly disturbing right from the get go. Chairman Schiff knew it was all a nothing-burger so fabricated a terrible mafia style conversation to grab headlines. Of course it was completely made up! Not sure these are the headlines he was intending to generate.

 

“I have a favor I want from you,” Schiff said while appearing to read from a paper. “And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it, on this and on that.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/schiff-parody

 

Pathetic, dishonest, and embarrassing. Typical behavior from team democrat since the humiliating electoral upset 3 years ago. 

The report at the head of this section has been seriously slanted, the head of the DNI was clear when he said that there was NO attempts to hide the narrative as it was withheld by the legal office of the White House because it involved "executive privilege" and they needed to get extensive legal opinion on how to proceed! Then this Dem wanted the DNI to tell about his intelligence conversation with the President. The DNI refused as it would forever taint the confidentiality of any conversation with POTUS! Then the Chairman got all pouty over the answer, Sheesh! You couldn't make this idiocy up! 

Really, I just can't look at my friends who are rice farmers in the eye when they ask about this new scheme! Why doesn't the govt. ministers just say, we're stealing X billion of Baht this year, same same every year since the year dot?

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This is a very tragic development. Thailand does not have efficient transportation alternatives other than air travel. And the roads are choked with trucks, so an alternative freight method desperately needs to be established. The nation will not ever be considered a developed country without the high speed rail project. Unless they decide to open the Hua Hin airport, the Surat line is desperately needed. 

 

What is the Japanese reference? They cannot build the CM line without them? Yet, the Japanese have never invested in a rail line outside of Japan? Those questions were never asked?

 

A civilian government is required to get this done. One with real negotiators. And some intellect. The army is a sorry, hapless, grossly incompetent house of fools. 

Mike do I get a whisker of a thought that tells me that you personally have had enough of the BS?  ???? 

#metoo...give us all a break!

On 8/27/2010 at 3:36 AM, LaoPo said:

And, to continue with my post, above:

Effects of maternal iodine deficiency on the fetus and neonate

excerpt:

Thus, iodine deficiency puts virtually everyone in the affected population at some risk for brain damage. Many studies have compared performance of iodine-deficient children with that of iodine-sufficient peers on standardized intelligence tests. A meta-analysis of 18 such studies, comprising 2214 subjects, concluded that iodine deficiency lowered a mean intelligence quotient by 13.5 points (25). In view of the many people living in iodine-deficient areas and their vulnerability to its effects on the developing brain, these numbers indicate a staggering public health problem. This and neonatal mortality, rather than goitre, have become the main reasons for advocating urgent correction of iodine deficiency.

Conclusions

excerpt:

Iodised salt should be viewed as a means to an end—adequate iodine nutrition—rather than as an end in itself. Monitoring of people is essential. We have previously cited examples where initially successful programs later deteriorated, usually because of insufficient attention to monitoring (e.g. Guatemala, Mexico,Thailand; Ref. 29).

From: http://jcem.endojour...short/86/6/2360 - The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

LaoPo

Sooo, you are suggesting that Thai children taking the appropriate iodine dose should/could have an IQ of 91 + 13.5? How does that figure with Thai children losing one point off their IQ after completing one year in kindergarden?

6 hours ago, Matzzon said:

And, you base that on what info?

There you go again! Who gives you the right to ask people to qualify their opinion???

On 9/23/2019 at 8:43 AM, steven100 said:

They are just kidding you so you'll feel good and they are hope Christ in hell that you'll walk over to the bar they work at and ring the bell.

I'm sorry but they are just being fake to you. 

That's cruel Steve, let him live with his dream...he's probably just not your type?

You're doomed...my wife washed mine on a visit to Australia, I used a mountain of BS to get pass the check in counter to fly back and Thai Immi were very understanding but they said get a new passport now!!!!!! It took months to sort out!

On 9/22/2019 at 10:56 AM, Sujo said:

Australia banned

 

texas chainsaw massacre 1 and 2

caligula

i spit on your grave

romance

the human centipede 2

fathers day

found

 

Among many others. Thats what happens whether muslims are in control....or not.

 

Australia, the nanny state to top any nanny state on Earth! Even if your pool is 1000 miles from any shore and you have no children you must have a metre high fence and a gate with a child proof lock! We must love all of our "suntanned" brothers & sisters, especially if they're Muslim and especially especially it they are transgender or fluid gender! There is a strong SJW movement in Australia to disarm the police and the military and every politician of every stripe bends from the waist and apologises to anyone who asks for their guilt for being "white and male"!

AFL without the marks!

Thanks for the information, my family and I make up a group of 12 persons, we were all planning a holiday in NZ next year...back to the drawing board! 

Its all very well to complain that the pollies are doing nothing, but who is holding their feet to the fire? Not the "media", not the newspapers and definitely not the voters! Ozy has the government they deserve, start the campaign to vote out the sitting member, that should sort them out!

Mice live in cavity walls...snakes chase and eat mice in cavity walls...little furry animals live and die in cavity walls! Seal the top of cavity walls! Really!????