rattlesnake

Definitely. Trust and respect. And it also means you can liaise directly with them instead of relying on your wife/gf. A few months ago, I heard my wife arguing with her brother because he was trying to borrow money. I sent him a message on LINE (in Thai: I get by in spoken Thai but have limited writing proficiency so I use Google Translate, speak in the microphone and it will write it for you) telling him to give it a break. Problem solved instantly.

In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.” In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” Way back in 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.” https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/bidens-history-getting-away-racist-remarks

What did they expect, coming from this guy? Biden said two-party system in South was 'good for the Negro' https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-said-two-party-system-in-south-was-good-for-the-negro

Indeed. A grotesque farce… but quite representative of today's world where nothing is real.

Now imagine if this had happened between January 2017 and January 2021… Media and political hysteria would have ensued, and probably another impeachment for good measure. Looking forward to the coming 15 months… Biden could appear naked with a gun in his hand and his defenders would still try to minimize, excuse and deflect towards Trump. Pathetic but very entertaining nonetheless.

Sorry to hear about your problems Owl, I hope everything will work out for you.

Klaus Schwab would concur. "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear", right? Cashless means CBDCs, which means total government overreach and potential dictatorship, especially when combined with "social credit score" systems. Don't tell me such systems will never happen, they already have with the vaccine passports: scan your QR code, green (good citizen) you're in, red (bad citizen) you're out. Accept cashless and you're opening the door to this: How China's 'social credit' system blocked millions of people from travelling https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-7-2019-1.5046443/how-china-s-social-credit-system-blocked-millions-of-people-from-travelling-1.5046445

Any farang beggars still in Patts? I saw a few during the years I spent there.

The Walker Foot Clinic was good ten years ago, German guy if I recall correctly. Don't know if he's still around.

Nonsensical. He clearly suffers from dementia. But even more striking – and worrying – is the leniency from the media and Democrats, who will typically start ranting about Trump when confronted with it, as if Trump had anything to do with it.

The man can't formulate a coherent sentence. But he's not the only Democrat who is mentally impaired. He was standing next to John Fetterman during his speech in Philadelphia recently, he's probably the only one who understood what the guy was saying. Fetterman ends his speech by introducing "congressman Boyle Byle". That should have been "Brendan Boyle". Unbelievable.…

Calling it misleading doesn't make it misleading. There is only so much rhetorical dancing one can do to defend an erroneous position. One viable option would be to just admit you are wrong.

Right, so you confirmed there is no evidence of Russian collusion, which was the reason why this 32-million farce (a sizeable chunk of which was taxpayer-funded) was launched to begin with. Their damage control communication is weak to say the least: they are sure Trump is a bad guy although they can't act upon it because he is President… Compelling indeed.

I put them as two separate quotes, with beginning and end quotation marks for each of them, with a line break between them. I claimed that the most serious, heavily publicized allegations (in this case, concerted election interference with a foreign power) were dropped because not a shred of evidence could be found, and dubious wording was then used to imply "he still did something bad". The word salad you quoted from the article confirms that. Can you provide me with a quote which confirms Trump colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, which was the sole base used to justify this 32-million dollar endeavour?

As always with Trump, the most serious, heavily publicized allegations (in this case, concerted election interference with a foreign power) are dropped because not a shred of evidence could be found, and dubious wording is then used to imply "he still did something bad". "Mueller, however, refrained from recommending prosecution, saying that there were “difficult [legal] issues that would need to be resolved,” in order to reach a conclusion that the crime of obstruction of justice was committed by Trump." "Or, as Trump has repeatedly reminded, the report found “NO COLLUSION” by anyone in the Trump campaign with Russians trying to sway the 2016 election in his favor. But that doesn’t preclude the possibility of obstruction, Mueller said." https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/what-the-mueller-report-says-about-obstruction/

That judge is entitled to his opinion. The bottom line is they had nothing serious against Trump, and even media outlets such as CNN, which aren't exactly pro-Trump, had to admit it: Neither Mueller’s office nor subsequent prosecutors ever gained a complete understanding of the President’s financial ties, nor did they find an illegal connection between his campaign and Egypt, Russia or other foreign officials. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/five-takeaways-mueller-secret-investigation/index.html

The only people distorting reality were those who pushed the following falsehood for several years: Hillary Clinton 'Convinced' Trump Associates Colluded With Russia https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-convinced-trump-associates-colluded-russia-n800566 This fantasy led to – and was ultimately debunked by – the Mueller investigation, but not before costing American taxpayers milions of dollars.

Then you know that the collusion allegation was at the center of it. FYI: https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/ "Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find sufficient evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the United States’ 2016 election and did not take a clear position on whether Trump obstructed justice."

Have a wild guess. If you were somehow not aware of the Mueller probe, I suggest reading about it.

You mean these incidents would not have been reported two years ago?

Reminds me of this:

"resort ha ha. looks like an abandoned building." Looks like the staff area.

Quite a surge of ultraviolence in Thailand lately. The "new normal", is it?

Agreed, but for the random opportunist, there is a psychological aspect. A thief will not enter a house with the lights on, for instance. Just leave the light on behind the front door.

I grew up in a tough neighbourhood and we would never lock the car. The guys were free to have a look, see there was nothing to steal and venture elsewhere.