Paul Risley

Americans abroad need US-approved vaccines in countries where #COVID19 is worsening. Excellent reporting from @VOANews @W7VOA #Thailand @HelenBranswell @Laurie_Garrett voanews.com/east-asia-paci…

@JamesDukeMason The desk is very cool with the wings. And great that you are reading Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes! No better Bible for campaigning.

So cool to find this photograph of my grandfather James Mason (with my grandmother Pamela and Richard Burton) at the desk he built at our house on Pamela Drive and I now have in my bedroom today!!

I join with President Trump in extending the joyous spirit of rebirth and renewal that is Easter to you and yours. Have a wonderful day!

@Acyn “Where he learned many of the Biblical swear words. And some he learned in Queens, New York, of course.”

White-Cain: Many people don’t know about the upbringing of President Trump. He went sometimes three times a week to Saturday and Sunday school.

also Trump has memorized the entire Bible

@JohnJHarwood Including many of the swear words.

@RyanGirdusky You say you didn’t “name Noem by name out of respect for privacy” but you did say “she” was in Trump’s cabinet and had a “husband.” That narrows it down to four women and Noem famously has been having an affair. But still, no one picked up on it?

I mentioned on my podcast months ago that one of Trump’s cabinet members was telling reporters off the record that her husband was gay. I didn’t name Noem by name out of respect for privacy but to say she had no idea really flies in the face of what she was saying.

@Ajarncom The mean-spiritedness is on purpose, designed to increase the number of irate replies. Engagement is what they are after, they will add more and more AI-generated content. Best to ignore them, block them or reported them as scams.

This growing plethora of Facebook pages taking jabs at various kinds of foreigner in Thailand can be quite funny - but there is a fine line between funny and mean-spirited and plain inaccurate. It's refreshing to see that many of the comments disagreed rather than saying "good one, I almost split my sides laughing" For those who have paid for the roof over their head and don't go out getting smashed every night (why do you need to do that?) a thousand bucks a month (around 33,000 baht) is perfectly doable. What I find most irritating about these pieces is that people seem to be judged on how many beers they can or can't afford to drink. Seriously, does alcohol play that big a part in most people's lives?

⚡️‼️🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The loss of an E-3 surveillance craft is fake news. The craft has already been restored to service. Iran is seething.

@gregsgroove With a little duct tape, everything is fine.

That’s funny

@rosegeorge3 Definitely not boats

Ships

@jagowriter Cannot help but think about the painful history from WW2 but we are now 2 or 3 generations away from that, it is time.

Japanese troops will participate in a joint US-PH military exercise in the Philippines.

To commemorate my father’s 95th birthday, I want to remind Spock fans that dad’s parents were Ukrainian immigrants which shaped my father in many ways. Four years of Putin’s war has brought death and destruction to our people, our homeland. LLAP. #standwithukraine #ukraine

@gregsgroove @Robert_E_Kelly That’s awesome. Could you graph that ideological progression from Kerrey to Nader to West - and then fill in the later elections? I worked for Nader’s ngo Public Citizen 1984-85. Pay was starvation level but the work was great. We were on a mission.

@pauldrisley @Robert_E_Kelly I did too

Let’s say we do take Kharg Island & a strip of the Iranian side of Hormuz, & open the strait Then what? How long do we stay? Won’t Iran shut the strait again as soon as we leave? How do we respond when the entire Iranian military descends on these enclaves? Mission creep looms

@gregsgroove @Robert_E_Kelly I worked for Nebraskan and Vietnam vet Bob Kerrey’s fateful 1992 campaign for President - he sang The Band Played Waltzing Matilda at the staff farewell party after finishing in 4th in the New Hampshire Primary. It was astonishing.

@pauldrisley @Robert_E_Kelly youtu.be/TThjY_qlEfg?si…

@shashj With his bare hands. In 1989, I was introduced to Chuck Norris by Lee Atwater, the then proprietor of a upscale barbeque joint in Arlington Va. As a Blue Blue Democrat I was mortified at shaking hands with masters of the dark arts, but the pulled pork was excellent.

@Reaproy @bhumjaithai_TH @bhumjaithailive @PheuThaiParty @PPLEThai The “Benz” is stuck in the sand!

The crisis kicked off by #Trump's war on Iran comes to #Thailand. Situation is dire with fuel unavailable up country, prices of everything going up yet PM Anutin keeps up his happy talk that "everything is fine, nothing to see here..." Stephff nails it (as usual) in his latest cartoon. #WhatsHappeninginThailand

@gregsgroove “You want a President who is ready for the 3 am, err, 2:47 am, phone call —“

That’s funny

@bangkok_pat @KhaosodEnglish Dusit Central Park is of course both shopping mall, office space and serviced apartments - so I guess both the Residence and the Embassy could move in there. And what a huge plot of green forested land in the center of Bangkok; perfect for a shopping mall! @gregsgroove

@pauldrisley @KhaosodEnglish They are moving operations to Dusit central park according to the Thai enquirer article

The Embassy of the Netherlands in Bangkok is set to sell its current Bangkok site and move to Dusit Central Park. #Netherlands #Thailand #Bangkok

@gregsgroove @Rajprasong_News I am getting bored with our existing malls, we need some new ones. 😃

@Rajprasong_News @pauldrisley, great, another shopping mall.

Figure that’s the why of the sale! #Holland