GinBoy2

Now this has been a while, long before my wife became a US resident But we got a tourist visa for my wife to visit my family in Guadalajara along with my US daughters after my wife was denied a B1/2. I don't remember it being that difficult. The reason we did it was my youngest had just had a baby and since the US embassy seemed to think that was a reason not to give my wife a visa we all congregated at my cousins house in Mexico

So, I did my homework and found out who this guy, who I'd never heard of is. Quite the catch isn't he for some psychotic woman. I did rather like Thunberg's reply email; [email protected] Sure he's been quite the roid boy during his career so she's probably not wrong!

Jeez I must be old, I have no idea who this guy is. I guess he certainly didn't influence me!

We live in Western South Dakota so on the front end of the storm. We never got the snow that pummeled the east, but it was the rapid temperature drop that was the killer. I got to work at the airport at 0430, and it was -2°C. By 1100 it was -27°C with 50mph winds blowing horizontal snow. Wasn't the best day of my life, but unlike the folks in NY I got home safely

Thankfully, finally a little Euro self reflection on their obsession with Russian energy. A lucky break on a so far mild winter has allowed a shift to LNG imports from friendlier countries and good storage capacity You have to think for the Putin successor's what they will think will be his legacy. The world will have moved from Russia's pretty much sole export, and he's trashed that. Great move Vlad the Mad, hope you're happy with yourself and lets see what history will write about you!

I can live with that statement. And as for my own statement, I'm not sure in Russia we have entered Authoritarianism or Totalitarianism. Neither of which are good

Well I think we may need to agree to disagree on the latter. Merkel herself has said that she thought tightening the economic ties to Europe would bind Russia to Europe. Problem is it did exactly to opposite. It made Europe a cuckold to Russia, as the regime became increasingly more authoritarian

Almost all all airlines are in debt. Aircraft either bought or leased are expensive. The important thing is having the income to support that debt. TG has in the past lived in a fantasy world where the government would just write off the debt. Oooooh SQ has has the A380, we gotta gotta get some, regardless of whether it made any economic sense to the network. Thats the craziness that has to change, I wait with bated breath

So, I'm an American so not commenting on the UK's mental breakdown. Globalization, wonderful concept. We were all going to benefit from trade between friends, The former Soviet Union, China would be raised up and become just like us. Well has that worked out? Both have become more totalitarian and the West has found itself shackled to them for manufacturing and energy. On the plus side, in the US there has been a full throated push to onshore manufacturing to uncouple China On the downside, the insane Merkel policy of total dependance on Russian energy is going to take a little more time to unravel in Europe

Hmmm, I'm seeing six 772 airframes sold. Interested to see what the other two are

Cant remember who the lady was. .....he never knew her name! I must admit in my youth I've had hook up sex with women who I couldn't tell you their name, and they weren't hookers, as was more than likely this woman

Oh Dear, this is just the 'news' story that just keeps on giving. Unless you are fresh off the boat, you just read this cr#$p and roll your eyes. Same story rehashed, and I can't remember how many times over and over. Anyone that has lived in Thailand for any length of time knows what the endgame is. So as for farang naiveté on Thai justice; been there done that got the tee shirt a decade or so ago. Just stop posting these works of fiction, it's pointless.

I'm not sure why this even made the news. People get randomly attacked all over the world. God knows I was beaten up in Khon Kaen by a group of drunken Thai's just cos I was walking with my wife. My wife has never experienced any anti asian bigotry, and we live in a 99% white all guns and God State. So this just looks like a typical random event of living in the big city

Cherry Garcia or Strawberry Cheesecake

It's pretty bleak. I don't get it. The ones that find their way into Rapid City to get away from it all are great. To quote another co-worker, who his an ex Ranger "I know they are my people, but I hate them" The rez just oozes drugs and addiction. It's bizarre, booze is illegal on the rez so them come into Rapid to get drink. Yet weed is totally legal on the rez. It's totally out of control. So it gets to a totally weird world were we live so close but it's a totally alien. The Native Americans I work with you have moved out will slam it. Not quite sure how you fix it

I'm trying to be sympathetic here. My co-coworker lives on the rez and was gonna sub for me today Of course they let the sole gas station on the rez run out of of gas. I try to be sympathetic, but it gets to a point where your neighbors seems to be able to cope, so what the Hell is going on

It was the speed of temperature drop that was so freaky. We live in Western South Dakota, and it literally dropped from 2°C to -27°C in 2 hours Then there was the wind. 40mph winds in -27°C is life threatening. We really didn't get that much snow, but the wind just created a total white out, you couldn't see more than a few feet. I work at the local airport and I watched as the snow and wind moved in, and from being to see the runway to barely being able to see the other side of the ramp. Aircraft tried to land but every single one diverted Yet here we are a few days later and the weather forecast is for 44°F/7°Ç and sunny blue skies. Strange times

This is all horribly complicated. The US and the West didn't create this, it's internal, the same way no one enabled the Germans to fall for the cult of Nazism. The very fact that after the US withdrawal the Government fell so quickly tells you something. Within the Afghan people there must be some underlying desire for this. We focus on cities like Kabul, but the majority of Afghans live in rural areas and in truth we have no idea what they want. I think it's abhorrent, but we tried for 20 years and trillions of Dollars to give them a better society and failed. So now, it's up to them

I'm replying generically to this. If you have dual citizenship, ensure both passports are in the same name. Forget the Thai one being in Thai, get it in the English married name. I work for Delta in the US and one of things that terrifies check in staff is if they check someone in and the name on the passport doesn't match the booking. Thats when the airline, and so you know the check in agent personally, are liable for fines.

You nailed that. When countries get into a conflict to fight insurgent, guerrilla wars it always turns out badly, and Afghanistan is the poster child for that. The British, The Soviets and the US have all failed. But conventional war thats totally different. Ukraine is a conventional war. Tanks, Artillery, men facing an enemy face to face, in uniform. No war is pretty, but this is one can be won depending on who has the biggest guns and the longest staying power

It was a pretty impressive speech, in English and him and his speechwriters targeted it very well above Congress and directly to the American people. The whole strategy may well end up mimicking Reagans cold war, where he figured, rightly as it turns out, the West could outspend the USSR and ultimately win. Problem is we thought that was the endgame and that Russia would end up looking like us. We never figured on a Putin, so here we go again, albeit in a proxy war in Ukraine!

I rather liked the use of the word 'chick' Haven't heard that used in a couple of decades. Had a rather nostalgic 1970/80's HS vibe to it. Now how do I get Dad to give me the keys to the car to go visit this hot chick?

Well that was quite the Wiki link. What I couldn't get over was how lightly he'd been punished. Admitting sex with girls 10-14, along with everything else! In the US that would have given him a life sentence.

I think that one's a bit different. If I remember the news correctly they collided with another ship. The other one that sticks in my head is USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego that sank after an onboard fire. But I can't recall any other naval ship sinking due to weather, and maybe I'm being naive but the Gulf of Thailand isn't the North or South Atlantic. How rough can it get??

Trouble is you are and just don't see it. I'd wager you're a 60+ white guy, and have never had to deal with racism in your life. I kinda got that when you replied to an earlier comment I made about my life experience. Problem is for you, I'm sure it's totally unconscious and you have no self awareness of how it sounds. I've already expressed how bizarre it was for this woman claiming to be something she wasn't, but she is a woman of color so just deal with that. The fact that you continue to chew on this bone is almost a desperate attempt to justify it all. Let it go, there was stupidity on both sides I'd suggest, but you need to look at the underlying, your underlying racism and maybe evolve your thinking. Many folks have!