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And most things in the religious world are way too bizarre to have been made up but yet billions of people are brainwashed from childhood to believe all sorts of absurd ridiculous religious garbage. Some go out and try and kill other equally brainwashed people who by pure accident of where they were born believe another version of the nonsense....If u were born in India you were brainwashed Hindu, Italy Catholic, Bagdad, Muslim, England Protestant , Haiti voodoo, Thailand Buddhist and on and on....never seems to occur to all the religious fanatics that what they believe to their very core has more to do with where they happened to be born and brainwashed than any other single factor. Religious zealots however of course think that they alone have seen the "truth".

Don't tell anyone....enough people packing into VT6 already

Well I guess you know more than all the pros who had to decide the best action....you make it all sound so simple to just set a balloon down from 60.000 feet up in a precise area then send in a few machines to scoop up all the debris from the rocky uneven sea bed with no worries about rough seas high winds in the middle of the winter . Maybe a bit more complicated than than off the coast of SC in 50 ft water with a flat sandy seabed beneath in 50 degree weather within short distance of shore with all sorts of big military bases personnel and equipment nearby.....it is amazing the experts didn't think of that or call to get your expertise.

Another illegal airbnb operation....i am hoping that someday the powers that be will once and for all put a stop to it....if you do not have a hotel license in vast vast majority of cases rentals of less than 30 days are illegal....and yet it goes on and on turning condos into hotels. Maybe some nice tax audits of these agents might also show zero tax paid. Part of the problem with the illegal air bnb or agoda or booking.com who show the listings online and claim oh they have no idea it is promoting illegal rentals type rentals is that owners see others doing it and say gee why should i rent long term for $400 a month when i can give to agent and make double or triple that so the price for longer term rentals goes up up up. So the poor suckers who bought or did a long term lease on a condo whose HOA rules as well as thai law say no rental less than 30 days find out that their idea of semi peace and quiet living in a residential condo is full of all sorts of short term renters clogging elevators swimming pools coming home drunk and loud is not only allowed byt promoted by agents in the lobby. The Thai hotel industry as well as juristic boards of big condos need to grow a set and at least attempt to get the Thai govt to enforce the law. Some big time fines would send a message.

Here we go. Just what the usa needs is candidates for POTUS that act like 5th grade kids calling each other every name they can think of, making fun of their hair style, their clothes, their names....that is todays republican party. No solutions, ( example? don't worry the new repub replacement for obamacare will be announced by 2100...maybe) no platform....just spew childish taunts at your opponents , whine and moan about everything under the sun, how unfair it all is to you, and get a lot of clicks and TV time to raise $$ off of your grift.

With all the hot air being blown around by "experts" as to where, how, when they would have handled it i guess next time biden should post on asean to ask for their expertise. Hint: You are not experts. I am not an expert. Leave the recommendations to the real experts that actually do know about Chinese balloons, probable intelligence capabilities, military capabilities. international repercussions, debris fields and possible salvage operations. Like Biden did.

and have the debris sink into a five mile deep pacific ocean in the middle of winter with rough seas in remte alaska....good luck to the navy divers who would have had to try and deal with that.

So first u wanted it shot down over montana then over the badlands and now over the Aleutian islands...do u have any clue as to the depth of the pacific ocean is there not to mention it is the middle of winter with very likely rough seas....so your idea is to send a salvage team to go there and dive in freezing cold rough water that is about 5 miles deep to salvage the debris for inspection? Brilliant. How deep is the water around the Aleutian Islands? The Aleutian Trench is about 2200 statute miles long, 50 to 100 miles wide, and has a maximum depth of slightly over 25,000 feet.

In a statement on Sunday, U.S. Northern Command said the balloon was brought down "within sovereign U.S. airspace and over U.S. territorial waters to protect civilians while maximizing our ability to recover the payload." simple enough?

so are u still clinging to the idea he should have ordered it shot down over montana or the badlands of south dakota....that "logic" makes zero sense....but obviously you know more about it then all the pentagon ,cia,nsa ,weather balloon, china and other experts that agreed otherwise......you want to list all your qualifications so we can see how you attained such knowledge?

Just stop with all the arm chair quarterbacking and give credit where it is due. President Biden was made aware of the balloon and ordered the military to shoot it down when they determined it was best time to do so. That is what happened and the end result is the debris was salvaged for further study and nobody was hurt. Good Job Mr. Biden. Thank you for being a sane rational POTUS and not going off half cocked or thinking you know more than the experts. All the fox "news" and republican calls for resignation etc are just a lot of noise designed to stir up a controversy where none exists. Perhaps those folks should be a bit more worried about actions like trying to overthrow the election than when where and how a balloon got shot down.

But some of the experts here think it should be shot down over the badlands of south dakota or out in montana somewhere....have they ever been to the badlands? I have....it would be one of the very last places that u would want to try and recover debris...there is a reason it is called the badlands as it about as inhospitable and hard an access place as exists in the usa..not to mention that if the balloon had been shot down over land it would have been smashed to bits... Gee just maybe the real experts decided after careful study and discussions that if they wanted to salvage anything of value it would be better to bring it down in shallow sea water where the debris field was about 1500 x 1500 meters or less than one square mile and relatively easy for salvage boats to retrieve in 50 ft of water ...and the closest sea where the balloon was headed just happened to be off the coast of south carolina where almost all the debris has been collected in a matter of hours/days.

Yes and NO REASONALBE person would believe their #1 Liar. Obviously millions of their viewers have no interest in truth....just being entertained by world class whiners and bs artist who are all in for a buck and know the more outrageous the BS the more eyeballs and $$. Sad that so many grown adults are unable to separate truth from fiction. Fox is an entertainment company according to them...not sure why they are even allowed to us the word news, https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9

20 baht per day in hotels. Not a big deal to me and sure not going to impact my life. Not required and often not expected and not a big amount of $$ but in my experience the maids have always done a very good job and appreciate it even if a small amount. Couple of days tip and it buys them a meal ...would i miss 20 baht a day if it fell out of my pocket? No. Big difference to being in USA where often lousy or no service expects and practically demands 15-30% of your total bill which is already absurdly overpriced lots of time. Giving somebody $5-10-20-50 for bringing you some overpriced food/drinks has gotten completely out of hand in USA. I have very little sympathy for those type places where the owner is a very profitable fat cat who refuses to pay a decent wage. I do feel a bit sorry for the workers but if you are working at a very expensive and profitable restaurant/bar that forces you to beg the customers to get paid perhaps you need to find another job,

News flash: Two week millionaires spend more $$ cause they have to get back to work (or nagging wives) where they can make more $$ and plan their next trip. People who stay in Thailand for months at a time don't have the same clock ticking that wow i better get more massages, eat more food, take more bar girls home . stay in nicer hotels cause in two weeks i am back to reality where i can't afford much any of those things yet he is going to likely sit and think about how wonderful it all was if only briefly.

How about this sports analogy: It is easy to sit in the bleachers and boo the quarterback when you have no idea as to the playbook. It is not so easy when you are the quarterback. A good quarterback knows that he has coaches who likely have a lot more experience than he has to recommend the best play to run...and he listens to them because he knows that they have watched film and studied the opponents way more than he has and most likely know the best odds for a play to succeed. That is what a team player does....he gets input from the team rather than go off half cocked as if he and he alone knows everything about everything... Shame on Biden for not just lobbing a few passes downfield and hope for the best.

Did it occur to you that if shot down over land even if nobody got hit that the debris would likely be smashed to bits after falling 60000 ft to earth where as the experts decided to do it over shallow water where they could and already have recoverd the wreckage as they likely want to take a closer look at the technology etc inside? I am sure that the true experts are well aware of Montana's population and that may have well been discussed and rejected as not the best course of action.

What a bunch of armchair experts. I suspect that the pentagon, CIA, NSA and several other government agencies know a whole lot more about Chinese balloons that all the hot air being blown on this site. Biden listens to real experts who study these type events, technology, etc for decades and have forgotten more about it all than all the arm chair experts on an internet forum could ever hope to know.. So how about just give credit where credit is due. If you are the POTUS ask the experts their opinion as to how and when it would be best to shoot the thing down and then let them do their job. Don't go off half cocked or pretend that you and you alone know how to handle every situation that comes up. You don't. Good job President Biden. Thank you for taking the sane rational approach by listening to experienced experts who actually know what they are talking about.

so you know better than the experts who had all the data, all the info, all the knowledge of Chinese balloons, best area to avoid debris damage on ground, how best to salvage at sea.....impressive

Trumpers never ever give up trying to defend the indefensible. That is why trump loves them and will continue to welcome the $$ that the kool aide crew sends to him. Greatest grifter ever but having so many gullible followers wrapped up in absurd conspiracy theories, Qanon, Fox "news" garbage makes it way too easy.

Yeah boy how i wish we had a president that knows more than all the generals, all the pentagon experts, the CIA, the NSA ....a president that dodged the draft with bone spurs and tried to overthrow the election. A president who wants to nuke hurricanes, suck up to dictators, drink bleach for covid....instead we have a highly experienced president who understands that really smart people listen to the experts and not spend all their time telling everyone how they know everything about everything. Biden did exactly what any sane president would do and that is order it shot down as soon as the experts said it would be safe to do so. ...Biden is the president and does not claim to be an expert on spy balloons, aircrafts, falling debris, possible intelligence salvage....that is why presidents surround themselves with the best and the brightest and don't denigrate/fire every single one of them the minute they give him advice he does not want to hear. <<<<Off topic trolling comments removed>>>> Good job Mr. Biden.

Republicans are the biggest hypocrites ever to sit in the halls of congress. They support a man who tried to overthrow the government. A man who ridiculed crippled people, made fun of POW's, uses Racist slurs against Asians on daily basis, lied everyday, cheated on his taxes, declared bankrupty and stiffed numerous workers, praised dictators over and over and continues to do so to this day. But they want to remove a committee member who made an anti-Semitic statement and then apologized for it. Meantime Republicans who openly joked and called for the killing of fellow congressional members, who had a big old laugh at Mr Pelosi being attacked by a hammer don't seem very worried about the absolute bonkers people like Greene and Gaetz and Santos who say more crazy racist <deleted> in a day than the dem did in her career are placed on committees. When will voters stop supporting these do nothing hypocrites, liars, and batshxxt crazy members who are destroying whatever is left of the once proud republican party that does no more than sit and whine and moan about everything while offering no solutions, no platform, no policies except lets cut the taxes of the rich a policy that has been proven over and over to NOT benefit anyone but the rich.

maybe they use their earnings to buy a nice 30 day luxury cruise vacation to places that control their ports and not gouge them?

Add cruise ship port of laem chabang where a very strong taxi mafia rules with an iron fist and a taxi to Bangkok wants several HUNDRED dollars (can't remember but i think it was $400 usd)...The prices are posted on big signs in US dollars for all to see so it's not exactly a secret gouge. ....it is too far to walk from cruise disembarkation to the road and the mafia does not let any non mafia taxi or even motorcy taxi pick up passengers...as a result a lot of cruise ship passengers are left standing around trying to figure out what to do and many will give up and pay up...not a great impressiom when getting off a cruise ship in the land of smiles.. Been going on forever...no doubt MR BIG who controls it all is well situated with Government officials that control the port and shares a good chunk of baht for their "support". Story after story posted on cruise sites for years yet it goes on and on and on. Mr. Big no doubt has some very nice cars/watches/homes and laughs all the way to the bank every time a 3000 passenger ship docks at "his" port.

Not sure it is a great idea to get out of taxi and leave door open or otherwise do anything to antagonize the driver....better hope your driver is not having a bad day and decides to take his frustrations out on the farang....ask re meter before u get in and if no do not get in....conflicts with taxi drivers by farangs are rarely going to end well for the farang,...