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This is a no-brainer. The Government should have access to your smart phone in certain cases such as this, involving terrorist acts. Look at safe deposit boxes, which one may think is very private; but the Government can get access to them. If one commits a terrorist act, the government can do things like body cavity searches -- how's that for lack of privacy.

You are joking right? They are out to take money from the working stiffs and give it to the rich, take the jobs in USA to SEA, pay a lot less in wages, and make billions more. They are out to trickle down less and less, whatever the working stiffs can bear. They don't care much about the working stiffs.

Robert Reich: The GOP died in 2016 http://www.salon.com/2016/02/17/robert_reich_the_gop_died_in_2016_partner/

zzzz, on 13 October 2012 - 04:39, said: "I was a Democrat last election. This year, I'm with the Justice Party. They believe that there should be universal health care, free 4-years of college for all...." What Bernie Sanders has been saying about universal health care and free college tuition sounds familiar to me -- it was my position 4 yrs ago (see above). He has my vote.

I made arrangements to come to LOS in about a month.

For these expats who were arrested, could this arrest record cause a problem when they try to get their visa renewed I wonder?

http://www.msn.com/e...id=ansmsnnews11 https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Lord+Lucan&FORM=HDRSC2 "A British judge declared the infamous Lord Lucan officially dead on Wednesday, four decades after he disappeared following the murder of the family's nanny in a lurid tale that has gripped Britain...."

I have not been to NEP for at least 10 yrs. There used to be some really beautiful women there, but relatively expensive. If the prices are too high, most people will just stop coming. But I imagine some rich people will still come to NEP.

Listen to your inner voice. I was passing by a open air beer bar last night in Jomtien Beach and there were two beauties there. My inner voice, however, was telling me that they were not quite right. Their makeup, hair, and clothes were too perfect; they were like goddesses. They were in fact ladyboys. I don't mess with them but have been on occasions caught off guard -- there are some that are very hard to tell. They tend to have bigger bone structure. You can also tell by the way they smell. They smell like dudes as one would expect.

It's T plus a few days for me...the sun has finally come out to stay for a few days i was walking along Jomtien Beach promenade this morning and it was nice and sunny, not too hot.

It's $9 this year, slightly more expensive than last year (see my post from 2014, above, which states $8.50 in 2014). I heard on the news that this year is the best it has been in decades.

I went down to Costco USA and bought a couple of bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau 2015. It's pretty good this year. I'm trying to decide whether to buy one, two or tree cases when I go back to Costco for some more tomorrow. Cheers.

Below average in looks but mentally.... I would avoid her like the plague.

Dubai may be the place to be -- I knew a guy who went there and never came back.

Hey Flash, I thought you were in Chomburi, like Nasiadai said. Now you sound like you had gone back to USA. So what have you been doing lately? How are things going?

It's not even paper -- it's all electronic now. You sound like you are living in the past. To me, gold is something to speculate in. There are brick and mortar places where I live that sell gold coins and bullions. But they are not places I would patronize.

If SHTF, guns and ammo beat gold any day. Keep guns and ammo in a safe, not gold -- i.e., if you live in an area where it is legal to do so. GLD -- which is a gold ETF -- would be my choice if I want to speculate in gold because it's easier to buy and sell. If you take possession of the stuff, it's a PITA buying, storing, and selling.

Eliminate desire and attachments and your pain & suffering will disappear.

I think the worst time to visit LOS is now -- late Sep early Oct. Not only is the weather bad, the attitudes of the locals suffer because of the bad weather.

If a car maker wants to sell cars in a country, the car specs would have to meet the laws of that country, whether the country is small or large. The size of the market would not matter. If the existing specs already meet the laws, then obviously they would not have to work up a special set of specs.

In USA, car makers do bother working up a special set of specs for California, where the environmental laws are more strict than the rest of the country. It wouldn't surprise me if they do the same in other areas where the laws are different.

I don't think VW will die -- it will just be managed by new people. Heads will roll (the chief has already resigned).

They have different environmental laws in NZ, most likely, not as strict as those in USA. VW may meet the NZ requirements but not the US requirements.

In the last six months, VW stocks have lost about half of their value. About half million cars in US and 11 million worldwide are affected. There could be a class action suit by the owners of these cars to recoup their losses. Because of this problem, their cars are worth less now. There is a possibility that VW may not have enough to pay the fines and the pissed-off owners. It's hard to imagine that VW could cease to operate. In the 60's, I owned a VW Bug in my youth (except for the winshield wipers, it was a decent car)

I heard recently that China will be building a high speed train from LA to Las Vegas (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-vegas-la-chinese-high-speed-rail-20150917-story.html).. also heard recently from a well respected China expert that this talk about risks WRT China is unfounded. China still looks good to me (but I did sell my China stocks right before the correction last April). I might get back in soon.