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moral decline = the presence of agogo bars and walking street?

Lot of security yesterday at Central Bang Na. They didn't check the vehicles entering the parking lot though, as they were having lunch.

Note to self:

If you want to blow up Central Bang Na, do it during the guards lunch break ................

The biggest hole in the security checks is the entrance to Tops.

They never check there despite it leading directly into Central Bang Na.

Australian media are reporting that is part of the ongoing problems in the south and not politically motivated.

The "War on Drugs" is unwinnable regardless of what country you're talking about. Decriminalizing at the user level, setting up treatment centers, education targeting school aged children, decriminalizing completely drugs like kratom and pot, and then focusing government and international resources of cracking down on the sources and top-level traffickers, and individuals within legitimate corporations and government that facilitate the trafficking of drugs.

The best that can be done is to slow it down. Stop it? Never happen. The governments need to pick their fights a little more wisely. Tossing users and mules in jail looks good on TV and in the press (we see it daily, right), but the guys at the top laugh all the way to the bank that launders their money for them. And here in Thailand with their patronage system? Lol. They'll just keep tossing users and mules in jail, and keep issuing press releases.

This is all hot air.

I agree with some of your points and would like to add that the government should make the country aware of what the most problematic "drug" is - alcohol, of course by a long way. In the next WEEK 750 odd people will DIE as a direct result of alcohol.

I estimate maybe 1 person has died as a result of taking pot in the last 5 years.

Even heroin or methamphetamine kills nowhere near the number alcohol does. These drugs, if pure are like smarties compared to Johnny Walker.

In Victoria Australia 14 people have died as a direct result of the drug ice, many in an extremely violent manner. Crime is on the increase and more people are being detected driving under the influence of drugs than alcohol. In road fatalities drugs have played a larger part than alcohol. One in 7 heavy haulage truck drivers are driving on the drug ice.

Ice is now seen as a bigger problem in Australian society than alcohol, it is considered epidemic and as such a special federal/state task force has been established to concentrate on the drug. Drugs are having a huge impact on the health system draining millions of dollars a year. Fred Smith who enjoys a glass of wine with dinner contributes to the public health system your pot smoker and meth heads do not.

Thailand should use some of its bloated military budget to pay for its anti drug trafficking effort. Better yet, it should ask its new best friendsRussia and China to pay for it.

Can you legally buy firearms online in this country?

Why should the media help a person who sensors their work, threatens them with incarceration, threatens to shut them down, threatens to punch them in the face and threatens to execute them. I ask again why should they help him.

Because that's what they do. No offence but that's what some die for, to help describe for others to see and judge.

That is a really strange picture.

FREE TO A GOOD HOME....

Guys I have 4 FREE TICKETS to the Collingwood V St Kilda game at the MCG, next Friday the 17th April.

They are two sets of two and I cant use them. If anyone is interested let me know and I can email them to you and then you just print them out. I got them from a competion.

Would love to go to the game but returning to Chiangmai next weekend and wont have time.

West Coast ahead at half time..

Will they be rueing their poor kicking during that 2nd quarter at full time?

They will have to steady. Money still on the coasters.

Sorry BookMan but tipped against the swans.

it's okay, so did I

Did anyone pick this large a margin? Good to see Kennedy kicking 10 goals with time left to kick more. Will27 you will be very happy.

West Coast ahead at half time..

Will they be rueing their poor kicking during that 2nd quarter at full time?

Sorry BookMan but tipped against the swans.

That photo in the OP,where is the dept of morality?

This clueless jerk should have been on the streets of Bangkok a year ago when civil war was about to break out.

At that time Thailand was being run by the intrenched Shinawatra clan whose corrupt schemes were mind-boggling.

If THAI airlines don't comply with International Safety standards - and from all reports they do not - then passengers should book with a safe airline.

I wrote to THAI this week and said that unless I was assured an Internationally Accepted Safety ruling - with no ifs or buts - I would cancel my family's July trip - even though it means a loss of the fares.

These "functionaries" of THAI do not have the right to play with lives of passengers and crew, nor to destroy what little reputation THAI have left.

Don't worry. If THAI doesn't comply by June 2, they won't have landing rights at any foreign airports that are under the jurisdiction of the ICAO and you won't be able to book with THAI anyway.

if THAI doesn't comply by June 2, they won't have landing rights at any foreign airports that are under the jurisdiction of the ICAO

If that should happen, which is a possibility, that will send Thailand into a tailspin of economic disaster that will take years to recover from.

Mid season draft is an interesting idea.

Imagine you were a club with goal kicking issues but on the cusp of making the finals. Your top forward has been injured in round 4. out for the season

Mid way through the season you recruit yourself a top forward from a rival club

The club you recruit the forward from then goes from being near the finals to missing out

Your club makes the finals

AFL Football Operations Manager Mark Evans says a mid-season draft 'has merit'

AFL Football Operations Manager Mark Evans says a mid-season trade period "has merit" but admits he'd be hesitant to sign off on any change.

Speaking on Sports Today, Evans told Gerard Healy and Dwayne Russell he could see some positives in tinkering with the current system but that clubs would be against losing players mid-season.

"My position, when I was at a club, was that I'm not sure I'd want to lose that intellectual property off my list to go to some other list," the former Hawthorn general manager said on 3AW.

"I'd be very reluctant to trade out.

"You wouldn't want it to be done for that reason.

"But I do accept it's worked in some other sports and I don't think we should be against having that debate."

Mitch Brown and James Magner both impressed during the NAB Challenge while playing as top-up players for Essendon and Evans said he'd much prefer a system that gave players not already on an AFL list a second chance.

"To me, that's got more merit," he said.

listen...

http://www.3aw.com.au/news/afl-football-operations-manager-mark-evans-says-a-midseason-draft-has-merit-20150407-1mg8yc.html