spidermike007

We know the degree of reckless driving here on the highways, so it's not fair to blame this guy on any level until we know the facts. For all we know some numbskull did something incredibly dumb and caused this guy great harm. I wish him well, he sounds like a decent guy.

Fantastic news. This is not a great time to be bringing children into the world, and people are wising up. I don't think they're going to be able to reverse that trend. And it's a good thing overall, though some pain will be felt, no doubt. World population needs to drop. What might appear to be an empty lifestyle to some, is bordering on paradise to many millions of us. Though I like kids, I've never had the desire to own any. One hour with one is plenty. It's a personal choice, we all have to make these kind of decisions. 98% choose to go the conventional route and have children. For me children were never an option. And I'm infinitely thankful for that. The best thing that's happening to the world right now is countries like China, Thailand, Japan and many others are just saying no to children. I do not think children are that special, they're not really needed, they are way over rated, and thankfully it's a choice these days and not compulsory. A lot of people are saying no, I don't need the headaches, I don't need the nonsense, I don't need the expense, I don't need the responsibility, and the planet does not need any other kid. Nah, I choose to have a great life, I don't need kids. I did that and it was the wisest and smartest decision of this lifetime. I don't miss not having kids for a nanosecond. The declining birth rates are simply symptomatic of intelligent people looking at life in this day and age, looking at their financial situation, looking at the lack of state support, and just simply deciding that having children it's just not some place they need to go. If they're going to have children, many are limiting it to one child.

I think Bangla road is a mistake, it's something that was somehow never meant to be, or certainly never meant to be this bad! I remember it 10 years ago and there was still some excitement to be had, and there were still some pretty hot girls. Now it's a blemish on the planet, a lot of old, unattractive, or fat girls, and just a few cute ones quoting absolutely silly prices. And the crowd, I have never seen such a low end crowd before.

I, like many others on this forum and I'm wondering how the new tax laws are going to impact me, and I'm wondering if anybody knows about a good accounting firm in the Hua Hin, Phetchaburi area. I don't want or need a top firm, I just need good advice from someone with expertise in this area. If I have to I will travel to Bangkok for a consult.

You are certainly welcome to rebut the claims that I've made, they're all factual and they're all verified. I do realize that his followers do not like hearing this kind of stuff about him, and many seem to be actively engaging in revisionist history, but you just can't change the past. A bum will always be a bum.

It's a fascinating topic and I'm sure the variety of answers is going to be quite vast. Personally I get a lot of fulfillment and satisfaction out of a woman that I have been with for a long time, who I trust and who I can depend on, and who always seems to have my back, and vice versa. Granted after a certain period of time the sex is not all that, but there are some very creative workarounds to that situation here in Thailand. I know that at this stage of my life if things were to go south in my current relationship, I would stay single the rest of my life. And I would likely do short-term girlfriends, or short time massage or bar girls, or freelancers. That likely ends up being a lot cheaper In the long run.

What the government should be doing instead is sponsoring a program to encourage rice farmers to replant more progressive and more sustainable crops. The only thing rice farming is good for is to make sure that a relatively poor family stays poor for the rest of their lives. It's a crop that has not made sense for at least half a century and it's horrific for the environment, if burning is involved. Same applies to sugar.

Does anybody know of a reasonably priced and dependable accounting firm in the Hua Hin/Phetchaburi area for advice on these matters? I am assuming that likely makes more sense than a law firm?

I do have an annual subscription and it allows me to call the US unlimited for $30 a year, that's a pretty good deal. I believe that I also have to pay for the number on an annual basis too, but I use it a lot, so it's worth it. I haven't found any viable alternatives to it that make more sense financially. The only downside to a Skype in number is the lack of a voicemail, that was a boneheaded decision. I have no idea why they did that. Fanytel is also a decent way to make and receive calls. But I only use that for business related stuff as nearly all my personal calls are done on WhatsApp, Line, or Facebook Messenger

Well I'm in agreement with you from a moral point of view, but you just have to ask yourself what is the breaking point for the average person? How much abuse will people tolerate? Will there be blowback from extreme corporate greed and generational gouging, that we saw during covid. I think there will be, and I think the sympathy is going to be minimal.

Thank you. And that does not include this list: 17 of his businesses have failed in the past few decades. Some at huge losses. Trump Steaks, Trump Shuttle Airline ($120 million in losses between 1988 and 1990), GoTrump, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump University, Trump Ice, The New Jersey Generals, Tour de Trump, Trump Network, Trump Magazine, Trumped!. Many businesses that licensed his name went bankrupt, or went out of business. And he had between four and six major bankruptcies (depending on the source), including the Trump Taj Mahal (which he spent $1.2 billion building, and was $3 billion in debt within a year of opening), Trump's Castle, Trump Place Hotel (which was very successful prior to Trump buying it in 1988, and he managed to put it into $550 million in debt by 1992!), Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts ($1.8 billion in debt by 2004, bankrupt in 2009) , and Trump Entertainment Resorts. There are likely others. And this does not take into account the 3,600 lawsuits he was involved in as of the time he took office, the vast majority of which were filed by small contractors against his companies for non payment, or total default. Many of these contractors were crushed. It is part of his M.O. Promises made but never kept: Every voter needs to be reminded of Trump's promises last time he was running: There is very little that comes out of Donald's mouth that is the truth..... He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist. He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it. He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million. He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did. He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one. He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did. He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not help them. He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks. He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency. I could go on.

I suspect his killing is just the beginning of middle class people who are incredibly frustrated with their lives, going out and deciding enough is enough. It just doesn't make sense when a CEO makes 6,000 times more than I do, and gets a $70 million golden parachute when he's fired. I suspect this will extend to healthcare, big pharma, insurance and banking in particular, all of which are perceived to be mafias. Are we noticing how little sympathy this guy is getting? They're trying to drum up sympathy by saying he's a father of two young boys. Who cares? What does that mean? Absolutely nothing. What kind of devastation did he preside over? How many claims did he deny? How many claims were denied during his leadership? How many people were sent at the poor house over his decisions?

Israel is not only the largest lobbyist in the US, but they are also one of the greatest deniers of democracy in the last 75 years. Whatever you do, whatever you say, make sure it does not reflect truth, if it's in regard to Israel, the ultimate deniers of truth and reality.

Anyone who thinks that having somebody's knee on someone's neck for 5 minutes and choking them out is correct and decent behavior needs to have their head examined. I would suggest a thousand hours of psychotherapy, that might be a good start. Keep dreaming and keep designing your own alternate, revisionist reality.

But that actually requires some thought and research, rather than just the repetition of jingoistic nonsense.

What a spectacularly lame response. You completely avoided answering any of his points. How typical. How jingoistic.

Though I do agree with what you're saying, my reply was to a fairly thoughtless post about buying American. There are a lot of people who consider themselves patriots and they feel as if buying American is a way to show their extreme level of patriotism. But they don't put that much thought into the process, yes you go buy an American car and it's probably made in America, but how many of the components are American? That is questionable, but when it comes to all the other aspects of your life buying American is not such an easy thing to do, though it may be a worthy objective.

Some of my favorites quotes about getting older. Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas 30s is too soon. Dying in your 30's is tragic. As is the 40s Sympathy dissapates from there. 50s is such a shame 60s is too soon 70s a good run 80s a life well lived 90s - a fricking hell of a ride Ya' know what though, I don't mind. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain't bad. Getting old, that's earned.

About twice a month after 6:00 p.m., that's plenty for me. I really enjoy sobriety and find beer to be fairly boring.

Please let me know about your experiment with buying American, let me know how much access you're having, let me know how much research you're having to do to find the products that you want to purchase that are truly made in America, not made by American companies, not designed in America, but made in America. It's fairly easy to buy an American car even though 60% of the components are sourced overseas, but what about your other household goods? What about your electronics, what's the last TV that you've purchased that was made in America? Tell me about your home theater. Please let us all know about your success story. Repeating "patriotic jingos" is fine, as long as you can back it up.

Gold, cash or a new car.

The really astonishing aspect of all this is the lack of sympathy that this guy is getting. I predicted years ago that we are going to see a form of our anarchy down the road, where average middle class law abiding citizens were going to go to extreme measures to wreak havoc and revenge on top officers of banks, insurance companies, healthcare, and big Pharma. Perhaps this is just the beginning. As many of us know many of those bankers should be in prison after the housing crisis of 2007. The judicial system would not deal with them, so perhaps the public will.

Americans should be petrified at the potential devastation that is coming due to incredibly ignorant and poorly thought out tariff policy, which is essentially an enormous tax hike on the average American, and a major issue for tens of thousands of American companies that manufacture overseas, including Trump himself.

The problem with these polls is that you just don't know what questions they asked and you don't know how biased the entire proposition was, so it really means nothing for a lot of people. Trump was one of the worst and it's very likely he's going to be one of the worst again, so he'll probably end up 44th worst and 46th worst than history. Buchanan was terrible, Harrison was terrible, Hoover was very questionable there were certainly quite a few poor Presidents in history, Bush Jr. should top the list also.

To each his own, we all make choices in life, but from my experience I have found older women to be too conservative, too conventional, not open-minded enough, not adventurous enough, and way too traditional for my taste, and for my lifestyle. In addition I like to get some inspiration from a woman's appearance, she doesn't have to be gorgeous, but there has to be some inspiration there.