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Yes, I didn't hear that also. Before 1 year. ????

Lets face it....nobody cares and they are not going to fix the issues. This first appeared back in Feb and the only time somebody says anything is when one of us reminds them here. Typical response to any issue a person has.

Silver linings. You're likely to waste less of your remaining life engaged in pointless, predictable banter about the ills of Thailand. It's a lovely day outside, get out there!

Really need some sort of hammer control legislation. Any whacko can get their hands on these things.

Pink walls and 8-10 young Thai women located 'behind the green door'. Could of been a nail salon!

Looks like Krungsri's Mee Tae Dai account has fallen again to 1.85% (down from 2%) as of their May 8 interest rates update sheet.

The bank had another subsequent interest rates sheet update effective May 13, but it shows the MTD rate continuing at the lower 1.85% rate. Those rates apply to deposits from 100,000 to 10 million baht.

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https://www.krungsri.com/bank/getmedia/7dbe1cd1-acca-4874-b245-705d8e2a9a8d/Deposit-Rates-13052015.aspx

Somewhat surprisingly, meanwhile, at least as of today, Standard Chartered's Just One Savings account has remained unchanged at 2.5% -- albeit only for balances from 0 to 100,000b.

Only because I'm a lazy bas'tad who doesn't like walking his money around town in athletic socks.....

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FINALLY! Moved to Bub-ben Nummer Tree today!

It is bad enough having to put up with all the duplicated and repeated sub headlines as you are having trouble to fill the pages, now you are presenting garbage stories as these. Come on TV lift your game, we are your income stream.

The owner and his staff have gone native. Criticism may lead to you being taken off the menu.

I think this uniform would be more appropriate given how sensitive Thai netizens (whatever the xxxx a netizen is)

UK policewoman circa 1900.

Is that Steven Segal?

Withholding noodles from the public is a serious offense against Returning Happiness to Thai People.

Using highly refined Thai analytical skills, I have deduced that the internet is the cause of calamity. Clearly, if there wasn't an internet, this would of never occurred.

Solution?

Really do need to come up with another name for these things to avoid having Thailand and Ping Pong Ball, together in the same sentence.

The 2 policemen in the back seem to be enjoying something more than her finger pointing.

Meanwhile, the drunk fella is still eyeing those bottles longingly.

Thank you again, Publicus.

This isn't anti-Islam.

This is anti-bat-shit-crazy-I'm-going-to-kill-you-for-drawing-that------Islam.

There's a difference.

Thank you Max Yakov for posting the Pam G video on Page 9.

Best quote of the day from that:

"If you want to learn who rules over you, find out who you can not criticize."

Wow.

Mark the date.

This might be first time I've been on the same page with Donald Trump!

Don't say you're fired ... please ...

Nobody would fight harder for free speech than me but why taunt, over and over again, in order to provoke possible death to audience. DUMB!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2015

The U.S. has enough problems without publicity seekers going out and openly mocking religion in order to provoke attacks and death. BE SMART

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2015

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"It looks like she's actually taunting people," Trump said.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-garland-shooting

Meaningless platitude from Donald Trump. He can't even recognize a fight when he sees one.

Mozzies. Not to be confused with Muzzies, which can sometimes be just as annoying.

Because they landed on his testicles.

Mozzies. Not to be confused with Muzzies, which can sometimes be just as annoying.

Pam Gellar is a conspiracy pushing harpy. The event had nothing to do with free speech. This idea that people in middle America are somehow vulnerable to creeping Sharia and Islamism, depite the constitution, the ACLU, and numerous broad rulings on the 1st ammendment from the SCOTUS over years and years is laughable. I feel sorrow for those gullible dupes who fall for her ridiculous false narrative. When Hannity greets her like a hero on FOX I wish they would detail her numerous venal internet posts/ideas. The UK is smart enough to put her on a ban list as a hate monger. She wanted blood, and she got it.

Conspiracy indeed.

The more vocal of the 2 numpties from Arizona Tweeted that it was becoming impossible to be a muslim in america. The noose was tightening, he said. He was way down the rabbit hole and trying to appeal to some bobble head in a mosque somewhere. I would bet he never faced a bit of oppression he didn't bring on himself through his own actions and attitude. He worked himself into a froth, looked for that last minute praise from bobblehead, and went to go kill some people in the name of his religion.

That pretty much validates the unvalidated, unreasonable fears of middle America. Next thing you know, they'll be flying airliners into sky scrapers.

Well, I'm against Jihadists and all that ... but I don't see the point in these kinds of "shows" clearly done only to inflame Muslims in general. This is not the same as the Hedbo situation. That had socially redeeming value even though they knew it would inflame as well. This seems to be done ONLY to inflame. This show in Texas is just a step away from burning Korans. Should it be illegal to burn Korans or host such flame shows in the U.S.? I think not, but the people who do these things deserve to be condemned as well. (But not shot.)

The Muslims have a right to become upset - but any rights they have in America - ends at the point they make any attempt to stop someone from saying what they please or taking violent actions towards those who are exercising their free speech rights. To say otherwise is to take a position against the freedoms and rights contained within the 1st Amendment.

If it were the case that people could be silenced in their speech by others who disagree - silenced by intimidation and force or threats of death - then there would be no free speech in America.

Example: If a Gay organization decided to conduct a Gay Rights Parade in Little Rock Arkansas and a few fellows (members of some Fundamentalist Christian Sect back in the hills) decided to come into town and rough up the Guys in the Parade or even shoot them...

Not only would these 'fellows' be guilty of assault, perhaps of 'terroristic actions' and murder if they killed someone -- they would also be guilty of Deprivation of the individuals Rights of Freedom of Expression and of the Rights of Free Speech and Rights of Assembly ... Exactly the same thing the two Jihadists would have been guilty of in Garland Texas had they lived to go to court. Even the overt attempt could be prosecuted.

Would you then say the same thing -- the parade was done only to inflame Christians? Would you really say that?

I appreciated your example.

IMO, gay pride parades were shock tactics to get recognition and spur debate. Sometimes a few brave souls have to be the first to kick the world in the nuts to right a wrong. Many important social justice/ inequality issues were and still are addressed in this way.

There's just something annoying about having some religious knuckleheads, in this case muslims, tell the world we are prohibited from doing X, and if we dare, it's punishable by death. I don't recognize their authority, they have none, who the <deleted> do they think they are?

So I get it that some folks can't ignore the attempt to control speech and deed through intimidation, and do X just to create debate and confrontation.

Good to read that Americans Muslims and the family of the 2 slain gunmen, have condemned the attack at the convention center.

Of course the idea of the contest was provocative.

I'm fairly certain that the people that organised this event were aware that this was more offensive than provocative.

It doesn't prove that the US has free speech. All it proves it that the US has some knuckleheads who abuse it.

If I were to wander into a Texas bar and shout that all Texan men are feeble minded limp dicks, I'd expect to get a good kicking.

So, apart from the obvious consequences, what on earth would be the point of me doing it?

To "prove" that I can?

People really can't see the other side of this?

(Again in case anyone is just joining: I have no problem with the police taking out the two men who opened fire over it).

You seem to like the results yet call these Texans knuckleheads.

Pretty obvious they did this to prove a point, same as those satirical "knuckleheads" at Charlie Hebdo.

The only side worth paying attention to at this juncture is the fact islamic nutters in the 21st Century are telling the world it's prohibited from drawing islam's 6th century religious prophet. Or Else. Not empty threats, but the default response shouldn't be to cower in the corner and pee down your leg when confronted with some BS rationale like this. What's next?

This bit of unhinged religious zealotry deserves to be drawn out and updated. Not to worry, there are still plenty of islamic issues for which we can demonstrate multicultural awareness and understanding; just need to dial down the death sentence for cartoons rule.

If islam asks not to depict Mohammed, is it so difficult to go along with that? Do we need to depict him? Don't get me wrong, i detest the violence committed by the muslims because of this fiasco, but it seems that certain people enjoy provoking others under the guise of "free speech"

I don't feel that this scenario playing out before us now is comparable to freedom of speech but rather freedom to insult.

The folks within islam doing this aren't asking. The clue's in the name.

The expectation of compliance for the religious crime of (islamic) blasphemy is unofficially global now, so seems the prescribed sentence of death for anyone who dares disobey. The polite, peaceful pretense was dropped in Europe. It's quite clearly "Comply or Else" now.

Some people lay down and comply. Some stand up, poke the bear and confront nonsense.

Depicting images with the sole intent to upset followers of a religion rather than make a stand for freedom of speech.....

It's the other way around.

Is the soft shoe question from the "critics" a rhetorical one?

This kid is an accomplished, shameless liar to concoct a layered porky like this.

Indeed.

Hard to avoid being cynical when "verified bank accounts" is in the same sentence as "Royal Thai Police" and "Donations".

The amount of money and supplies leaving the country, and that being poured into buddhist temples, is staggering when you consider folks still live on dirt floors here, and farmers kill themselves out of despair.

After my share of years in the middle east, I do appreciate the fact Thai drivers don't typically use their car horn to communicate their thoughts and feelings to other drivers.

However, it pisses me off that this isn't because Thais are the calm, polite Buddhists the brochure lead me to believe they were. It's because they are terrified the other one will pull out a 9mm and blow them away.