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Tulsi Gabbard (Trump's Intelligence Cabinet Pick) a Threat to National Security
Listen to the podcasts for yourself. Clinton started the whole Russia hoax when she lost to Trump she labels anyone that disobeys her, only the gullible believe the Russia bs, are you one? -
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Three Dead, Dozens Injured as Steel Beams collapse on Rama II Road
Note that most of the dead were from Myanmar. Companies hire labourers from Cambodia and Myanmar because they work cheap and you can often avoid having to pay them at all by just calling "someone" at Immigration just before payday and having half your workforce arrested and deported for being in the country illegally. (Used to be a fairly common occurence in Pattaya Condo construction projects in the past.) Most of those workers are probably even less qualified than your average Thai worker and we know just how "qualified" your average electrician/plumber/bricklayer/labourer is here. In Thailand, cutting corners to increase profit seems to be the main guiding principle on these projects. Hence the new roads that collapse, develop potholes and deep ruts (or all three) within a couple years of construction. ForFreddiesSake - we built roads all around the Kandahar Air Field that were routinely used by tanks, armoured vehicles, cargo trucks and heavy equipment and never had the problems that they have on literally every new road built here. Mainly because here they try to build the cheapest road possible, using packed sand as underlay and thin layers of asphalt (that starts to crumble and fall apart within months) or concrete (where they have an inch of poor quality concrete overtop of wire rebar that gets exposed within a couple years as the concrete crumbles. No one cares and there doesn't seem to be any "Quality Control" or "Contract Assurance" to make sure the contractors do their job properly. It's a wonder any high rises in the country survive the first monsoon season. (Also why I would never consider buying a condo as I highly doubt the construction standards are that much better than they are with your average single or two story "village" house.) I suspect there will be a couple news stories about "increased inspections" and "enforcing safety standards" in the next few days - and then it will be back to business as per normal a couple weeks later. Just like happens after every nightclub/mall/condo fire disaster. Lots of chest-pounding in front of the cameras for a couple days, some photo ops of "inspections" and then 2 weeks later everything is back to the way it was before. -
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Mark Zuckerberg Dines with Donald Trump Amid Signs of a Repaired Relationship
Anyone with a lot of money? -
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Drink deep, my brothers, of the delicious tears of the deluded left!
It was that sort of post that led me to put him on ignore. Life is better when I don't see their posts. -
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Consumer injured by glass in spaghetti at Thai pizza chain
How can it be violent to the defamatory laws to tell where they served glass? -
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Healthiest Thai bread?
You can buy rye flour at many of the vendors, and I have, and used, though a bit pricy. Nice change and hard to beat a good rye bread for sandwiches, or just toasted w/butter. Most other flours & grains are available online, some pricy, and some a bit difficult to work with. -
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Trump and his followers.
Finishing at the bottom of your class is no big deal Agree. I finished school with no real qualifications, but still had three successful careers. Why did I do so poorly at school: because not a single teacher was able to motivate me to be interested. I did a lot of things at school, read a lot of books, rowing, played trumpet in the orchestra, acting, etc but not much in the way of passing exams. Never studied, never cared. Of course I was lucky that I started work when qualifications were not necessary. I could have done any job not requiring a degree. Kids these days are not so lucky- too many chasing too few jobs, and many jobs require a degree that did not use to, like nursing. Just heard that half the current year's nursing graduates will be unemployed. That would never have happened in the 80s. -
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Have You Won the Game of Life?
I think any Americans who are retired and living in Thailand should feel blessed. America has no state healthcare system either and most likely never will. Plus, 50,000,000 Americans who now have healthcare under the affordable care act stand to lose it very soon.
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