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  1. Is it simply a coincidence that everything happened after the Wuhan virus got out of China? Riots all across the US ... in cities run by the Democrats, who are actually talking about defunding the police and military? An African Anerican who was on drugs and had a criminal record was murdered by a policeman, but is being turned into a hero around the world? All of this conveniently happening in an election year ... when the polls had consistently predicted Trump would be reelected? And the Democrats nominate a nincompoop who would be someone's tool to become president? At the same time Red China (bring back the old term) is becoming more aggressive day by day, and Xi's buddy Kim Jong-un is suddenly turning on Trump? This sounds like a plot out of a Hollywood film, not real life. I'm glad I'm safely out of things in Bangkok, well safe for a while anyway.
  2. Ah, the glorious "revolution of 1932", which in fact was a military coup. 102 coup plotters hardly constitutes a revolution, but it sounds so much better to call it that instead of admitting the truth. Also, the coup plotters created a national assembly to govern, half elected and half appointed by themselves. (Not exactly a shining example of democracy). Within a few years, the military faction had taken over and the leader of the much smaller political faction had been forced to flee the country. So much for democracy in Thailand. My prediction: This not going to end well for the protestors.
  3. Nope. English teachers don't ride bikes these days, nor do Chinese millionaires. He would be spotted as an illegal alien and arrested.
  4. Nah, Cav is probably just misbehaving himself in Bangkok. Steve maybe got bored.
  5. Rename Brown University! "The slave trade in particular was dominated by the northern maritime industry. Rhode Island alone was responsible for half of all U.S. slave voyages. James DeWolf and his family may have been the biggest slave traders in U.S. history, but there were many others involved. For example, members of the Brown family of Providence, some of whom were prominent in the slave trade, gave substantial gifts to Rhode Island College, which was later renamed Brown University. ... "The southern coastal states from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland were therefore home to the vast majority of enslaved persons. But there were slaves in each of the thirteen original colonies, and slavery was legal in the north for over two hundred years. While the northern states gradually began abolishing slavery by law starting in the 1780s, many northern states did not act against slavery until well into the 19th century, and their laws generally provided only for gradual abolition, allowing slave owners to keep their existing slaves and often their children. As a result, New Jersey, for instance, still had thousands of persons legally enslaved in the 1830s, and did not finally abolish slavery by law until 1846. As late as the outbreak of the Civil War, in fact, there were northern slaves listed on the federal census." http://www.tracingcenter.org/resources/background/northern-involvement-in-the-slave-trade/
  6. BS. Other polls show Trump cutting Sleepy Joe's lead by over 50%. The NYT polls were wrong four years ago, so why should we believe them now? This election is still a toss up.
  7. Gee, look at that! Trump wore a mask when he visited a veteran's hospital where there were coronavirus sufferers present. What a shocking thing to do. "I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place," he said as he left the White House. On Saturday he said: "I think when you're in a hospital, especially in that particular setting, where you're talking to a lot of soldiers and people that, in some cases, just got off the operating tables, I think it's a great thing to wear a mask." BBC news
  8. Trump did not pardon Stone, the way Billy Clinton did his buddies. Trump "commuted his sentence", meaning Stone will not have to serve time in prison. Stone still has that guilty verdict to live with, and it can have a negative effect on him for the rest of his life.
  9. Corporal punishment is also banned, but I have seen primary school teachers line of their entire class and give them all a good smack on the hand with a ruler. p.s. My Mrs had beautiful hair when she was a university student, and she told me that when she was doing her practice teaching in her final year, her supervising teacher (a woman in her 40s) told her to cut her hair. Long hair was "impolite". She refused to cut it, so the teacher gave her a C+, while everyone else got a B+.
  10. Private amusement parks etc are one thing, but when national parks double charge - even though you are a Thai resident and taxpayer - is something else. A Thai driving license can sometimes get you the Thai price, but not always. I still ask for the Thai language menu in restaurants, a habit I picked up years ago when double pricing was fairly common even in restaurants. Okay, so tourists have money or they wouldn't be travelling, but those of us on a local income certainly didn't. Thai university salaries for foreigners were never much over 30,000 baht a month when I was still working. Yet we got charged double or more at national parks than a Chinese Thai millionaire in his brand new Mercedes.
  11. Big gold fraud busted in China! Gold market spooked by massive counterfeiting scandal Over the past decade, China has emerged as the world's biggest counterfeiter of various, mostly industrial metals used to secure bank loans, infamously called "ghost collateral", and often several banks would have claims to the same (fake) asset. In a recent development, which would spark a brief wave of outrage among physical gold holders, China's Wuhan-based Kingold Jewelry Inc has been accused of depositing fake gold bars as collateral to obtain loan worth 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) from 14 Chinese financial institutions, mostly trust companies (also known as shadow banks), over the past five years, as per a report in Zero Hedge. Considered to be one of the biggest gold counterfeiting scandals in recent history, the scam not only involves China, but it emerges from Wuhan city, the capital of Hubei Province, that has become synonymous for all that is scandalous about the country. ... https://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/biggest-gold-fraud-busted-in-china-83-tons-of-fake-gold-bars-used-as-loan-collateral/story/408497.html
  12. Creepy Joe has promised to pick a "woman of color" as his VP (color meaning every one except white). What are his alternatives? The BJ Queen from California? Susan Rice? (Both of them have white husbands, which could rule them out.) Opra Winfrey might bring him all the women's votes he needs though.
  13. Duckworth emerges as contender for Biden running mate WASHINGTON - As Joe Biden pushes ahead with his search for a running mate, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., has quietly emerged as a serious contender, according to three people with knowledge of the selection process, one of several developing dynamics as the search enters its final weeks. Duckworth is a Purple Heart recipient and veteran of the Iraq War, the only finalist with military combat experience - and as a woman of Thai and Chinese descent, one of several candidates of color under consideration. While she has a lower profile than some rivals, she is being taken seriously by Biden's team, according to the people with knowledge of the search, one of whom said she has lately received strong consideration. Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who has been in direct contact with the Biden campaign about its search, said in a recent interview that there was a "lot of attention" lately on Duckworth, whom he called "a highly decorated woman." Reid suggested Duckworth's qualifications are getting more attention. "You had all the other names there, and it was as if she didn't exist," Reid said. "And suddenly people began to look at her - this highly decorated woman, member of Congress, senator." Two others with knowledge of the search said Duckworth has been attracting notable interest from the campaign, including one who said Duckworth had left a strong impression on at least part of the Biden team. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The Biden campaign declined to comment. A Duckworth spokesman also declined to comment Duckworth's emergence comes as some Biden allies say former senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., a close friend of Biden's, is taking a primary role in the search process. It is also unfolding as Republicans prepare to launch fierce attacks on whoever is chosen as running mate, believing that person might present an easier target than Biden himself. Beyond Duckworth's relative inexperience on the national stage, her selection would frustrate those who are pushing Biden to choose an African American, saying the issues raised by protesters in recent weeks highlight the need for someone who understands the black experience in America. ... https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30390867?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=internal_referral Sorry, you're great, but your the wrong color. See, the Democrats aren't racist. p.s. I've met her and I like her, but she's hard as nails. I'm glad I'm not married to her. 😮 Her Thai is quite good though, and her Chinese-Thai mama seems totally in awe of how far her daughter has gone in politics. Oh, yeah ... her father (whom they don't even mention) was a white guy and a USMC veteran. The left might hold that against her.
  14. I wouldn't say that Biden is playing it cool and keeping quiet. It's more like the Democats are keeping him out of sight so he doesn't say anything stupid. Trump, on the other hand, still says anything that pops into his head.
  15. AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine Today, June 2, 2020, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit, AAPS v. FDA, against the Food and Drug Administration to end its arbitrary interference with the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which President Trump and other world leaders have taken as a prophylaxis against COVID-19. Two million doses of HCQ are being sent by the Trump Administration to Brazil to help medical workers there safeguard themselves against the spread of the virus. But at the same time the FDA continues to block Americans’ access to this medication. HCQ has been approved as safe by the FDA for 65 years, and the CDC states on its website that “CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria.” More than 150 million doses have been donated to the strategic national stockpile controlled by the federal government, but unjustified FDA restrictions limit its use to only hospitalized patients for whom a clinical study is unavailable. Hospitals are even returning HCQ to the stockpile because they are not able to use it effectively. “It is shocking that medical workers in Brazil will have access to HCQ as a prophylaxis while Americans are blocked by the FDA from accessing the same medication for the same use,” observes AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient, M.D. “There is no legal or factual basis for the FDA to limit use of HCQ,” states AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly. “The FDA’s restrictions on HCQ for Americans are completely indefensible in court.” Many foreign nations, including China, India, South Korea, Costa Rica, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, use HCQ for early treatment and prevention of COVID-19, AAPS points out. “Entrenched, politically biased officials at the FDA should not be allowed to interfere with Americans’ right to access medication donated to the federal government for public use,” Schlafly says. “By preventing Americans’ use of HCQ as a prophylaxis, the FDA is infringing on First Amendment rights to attend religious services or participate in political events such as political conventions, town halls, and rallies in an important election year.” “FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn states that the FDA does not interfere with physicians’ ability to prescribe HCQ, and yet at the same time the FDA denies access by millions of Americans to 150 million doses of it in the national stockpile,” Schlafly adds. “This irrational hoarding by government is an abuse of power.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has represented physicians of all specialties in all states since 1943. The AAPS motto is omnia pro aegroto, meaning everything for the patient. https://aapsonline.org/hcqsuit/?fbclid=IwAR2kr3mU8mxFuBj7UM9nT1NXD-0htNCzDKiebJGMBYKmGLiQxz7Y0f1R31E
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