Everything posted by Lucky
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Many Thai Police Support Protesters
The Washington Post interviewed numerous Thai police who support the protests. There are reports of police actually helping the protesters evade arrest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thai-police-protests-army-king/2020/10/22/3c0b162e-1130-11eb-a258-614acf2b906d_story.html
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Thais Protest King
The state of emergency has been canceled. The protests continue. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-22/thailand-lifts-emergency-decree-protests
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Will you travel to Brazil?
You mean the exchange of my health for COVID?
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Thais Protest King
A state of emergency was declared today. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-14/thai-police-disperse-protesters-outside-pms-office
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Thais Protest King
The Thai king is in the news again as the LA Times looks at his vast wealth and his increasing power: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-13/thailand-king-richest-transparency
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LA Times Reports on COVID in Brazil
It's an interesting article, to say the least: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-08/brazil-strains-at-quarantine-as-virus-cases-pass-5-million
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Ignored users
How do you know his age?
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Brazil Sep2020 General Observations
I have an ATM card from First Republic Bank. There are no ATM charges in the US, and for foreign charges they reimburse you in full.
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Pie Jesu sung by Carla Maffioletti and Akim Camara 1,518,627 views 9.5K 565 Share Save Report
Gosh, Adam, I am not sure why you posted this, and in this section as well. I didn't care for the video at all, but in case someone might, here is a better liink:
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The Boys in the Band
I saw it live in New York and it was quite well done. Glad to see it getting a bigger audience.
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Will you travel to Brazil?
I hope to go in August or September, 2021.
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Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Tremble. Do Not Waiver.
This is a September 19th tweet from Steve Schmidt of The Lincoln Project. Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Tremble. Do Not Waiver. Do not doubt either the goodness of our people or the possibilities for our future. Do not let small men with tyranny and malice in their heart, or hypocrites with no core, make you afraid for our future or of your countrymen and women. Do not let the fascists, racists and conspiracy theorists make you afraid of your neighbors or the strangers who could be your friend. We should all be grateful that we have been chosen by this rancid and dangerous hour to stand up and fight. What we do now matters. Our Capitol is occupied by a cabal of small and low men and women who have betrayed all of us, the American experiment, their oaths and basic decency in service of a corrupt and malignant cult of personality that is vandalizing our principles, ideals, inheritance, future and fundamental goodness. 200,000 of our countrymen and women are dead. At least 150,000 of them could be alive, but for Trump’s lethal lying and the immoral, supine complicity of his collaborators and enablers. Let us resolve to rise up and strike down Trumpism. Let us put it down with righteous anger and fury. Let us resolve to never let this happen again. Let us do our duty as American citizens. Let us be conscious that we are called to safe action when we consider the blood, sacrifice and courage of ordinary people who stood their ground on a field in Lexington and Gettysburg. The men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and dropped from the skies over France to crush fascism are smiling at our cause. The men and women who taught the world the meaning of the words “human dignity” as they protested segregation, absorbed the beatings and marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge are watching and judging us. We are in the right and for the right. We are fighting for the good. Trumpism is UNAMERICAN. It is illiberal, demagogic, dishonest, cruel, corrupt and disgusting. Let us strike it down. We will. Vote. Have joy in this fight. RBG is with her husband again. She is arguing with Scalia and meeting Washington and Lincoln. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass are there. Susan B. Anthony is there, and so is Elie Wiesel. A great champion of freedom has arrived in heaven. Her work is done. Her burden is now ours. Let us honor her legacy by doing our duty. FIGHT, REGISTER, VOTE. I DISSENT are the most American of words. Thank you, Madame Justice. May your memory be a blessing. We all know that it is. (I did a search and did not find it previously posted.)
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Thais Protest King
It goes on: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-24/student-leader-drives-democracy-protests-in-thailand
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Travel to Thailand
Is your partner with you or in Thailand?
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Mexico City
Interesting to see posts with names I don't recognize. Curious hasn't posted since April, Ethan since July. Now we welcome Jeff who is a new member. (Welcome, Jeff!) How do we keep new members interest in posting on this site? We see lots of new names, but most disappear after brief membership.
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junior the owner of Pointe202
I know this: Junior believes in client confidentiality. Once when I was speaking with him I mentioned tomcal. He astutely denied the name meaning anything to him. My intentions were obviously friendly, but he wouldn't crack.
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‘Recently updated’ & recent ‘Posts’
I was being facetious, Suckrates. I like your pictures.
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‘Recently updated’ & recent ‘Posts’
Where's Rockhard when you need him?
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Password stopped working...
My short password is not the problem. I log in from the home page, and when I go to the forums I am not logged in. I do so from the forum page and I'm in.
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Humor in the time of Covid
deleted on second thought
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The Edit function has disappeared too
Adam, I think God is preoccupied with the election, the pandemic, the wildfires, poverty, and Beyonce's breasts to get to this issue here. There is no button where I can reply to you with a quote, just to reply to the topic.
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(not so) new member + tech questions
I hope that it has been fixed now.
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Ashton Kutcher
A porn movie could be fun!
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Ashton Kutcher
Don't call his wife Demi.
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The Reopening of Brazil to Foreigners: some observations
Thanks for the interesting reports, @numazu1. I enjoy reading them and especially appreciate that you put some space in between paragraphs. That makes them easier for me to read.