6 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

The unborn babies were not as exuberant about the result.

......., especially when they have been "made by rape".

It seems you have forgotten that abortion was forbidden by law, in Ireland!

19 hours ago, riclag said:

Only sick people(insane) kill people Protecting(security and perimeter deterrents)  schools should be a  priority.  

Hereby you confirm that the USA have an overwhelming number of sick people, in contrast to other countries. De facto, not in my imagination.

BTW, here your beloved 2^nd amendment: from Dec. 15, 1791

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

Wasn't that the time when the immigrated settlers fought against the English occupation forces? It took ~200 years to eliminate slavery in the USA constitution and it will take about 1,000 years to kill the 2^nd amendment, if …. yes if the Americans did not yet extinguish themselves – by guns.

2 hours ago, Scott said:

I believe these are annual exercises and were planned and known about well in advance.   They were not secret or unexpected.  

 

I'm afraid you are not well informed.

The annual exercises have been delayed for the Olympic winter games in SK. So there is the question when the US and SK could do it for the (shie“t) Olympic winter games (=sports), why couldn't they do it for a more important reason: peace ??? At least trying it and looking for the result.

Maybe the incompetent LOTUS (Liar Of The....) will get very angry, as normal, if his good NK friend Kim will cancel the meeting, which should have „made Trump great again“.

January 2018: http://time.com/5100039/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-good-relationship/

“I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un,” Mr. Trump said in the Thursday interview. “I have relationships with people. I think you people are surprised.”

Trump has made dramatic switches in the past with other opponents, though typically the stakes were political and did not involve international diplomacy.

17 hours ago, alocacoc said:

There are many nonsense posts here. But yours is clearly over the top. China only follows oders by Trump. China doesn't like it, but have to.

Sent from a so called Smartphone using an App.
 

  Congratulation,

your comment topped my "nonsense post" off !

Who will trust the lying US government. It's better to believe in Santa Claus. But it's up to NK.

Maybe the Chinese could convince Kim for a change showing him the example of the positive Chinese economic development since Deng. The advantage for Kim for a deal with the US, more economic freedom and he wouldn't be forced to give up his dictatorship, and at the same time the NK people would be more happy.

It seems Trumps wants his name in the history books, although he already has one, a completely negative one. The main reason Kim Yong-Un for changing his atomic policy is not the LOTUS (Liar of …. ), but his own atomic ambition. The last explosion was „a little bit“ too strong, so that this ground and material cannot be used anymore. So it's easy for him to give up the atomic policy in exchange for some "advantages".

BTW, Pompeo forgot the Chinese will have a saying in this „deal“. How naive!

4 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Anyone remember that new kid at school who would just go nuts when being told off by the teacher. The reaction of a spoilt child screaming and kicking. All the other kids look on and think, “What a wrongun”. Well, here is that kid. Only thing is he hasn’t grown up and this is his first telling off.

 

And this, ladies and gentleman, epitomizes so much the attitude of the rich and powerful here. This guy is an utter scumbag who believes he can do as he pleases. 

When I read your comment without having seen the top it exactly matches the qualities of your best friend, the LOTUS.

So, why do you complain about the man here in this case and not about your darling .  Great moral ! Some people call it double standard.

Be sure I don't like both.

12 hours ago, oilinki said:

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Military is an essential part of USA society. For European countries the military is simply an necessity. We would be much better off, if we wound't have to spend money to military, but we also understand the facts and do it, because we have to.

 

The less tension there is between different tribes of humans, the less we have to waste our money to protect ourselves. Peace means prosperity. 

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12 hours ago, Morch said:

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And, of course, many a European nations are able to invest less in it's armed forces, knowing that the US is there to back them up.

 

 

As @bristolboy said in another context:

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Nice evasion.

That the European nations know they are „backed up“ by the US maybe partly true. But the main difference between the US and Europe is: Europe has learnt from the past. That means avoiding wars, reducing the military budgets as much as possible. Beside the fact that die US has the absolutely #1 highest military budget

hey want to be the globel power #1 – for wathever reason. Blinded by this pride they started very expansiv wars

• Korean War - 320 billion $

• Vietnam War - 686 billion $

• Irak War

  + Afghanistan - 2,000 – 3,000 billion $ (estimated by J.Stieglitz and L.Bilmer)

Having deliberately provoked at least 2 wars by the USA, Mr. Morch, that is one reason that „many a European nations are able to invest less in its armed forces“.

It seems the US – LOTUS (Liar Of The United States) - deliberately want to provoke another expensive war.

A typical crap, concerning statistics.

• If 83m saving accounts have been counted by WP and as Thailand has a population of only 68.6m by 2016 - including children – then there are people who have more than 1 account.

• In the number of 83m accounts there are foreign (falang)-related accounts, of mia(s) or mia noi(s), too.

• It's not clear if this number contains falang-accounts, including those of a Thai man or woman supported by a falang.

   

Result: You read a lot of numbers, but idiotic numbers without any significance.

There is no word about how many people are not at all able to save money. And there is a big percentage, easy to improve.

Let us assume that the minimum wage is payed everywhere in Thailand (in reality it isn't ). Furthermore let's assume 1 man or woman works 30 days a month, not abnormal in our area in the North, then he/she earns +9.000 within 1 month (if sick, no payment!). From this +9 thousand THB they have to pay water, electricity, rent, maybe oil or gasoline for their vehicle on their way to the workplace.

This all doesn't yet include children or family members they take care for. Even if man and wife would work that's scarcely not enough to save a few bahts.

1 hour ago, underlordcthulhu said:

Nothing angers people more than the truth.

Maybe you are right .

That's the reason why the not so intelligent US folks lastly elected the LOTUS, the Liar Of The United States. .

On 28.4.2018 at 8:53 PM, maximillian said:

Do you know how to use Google ? 

Try to avoid the streamline media. (MSM)

Different from Baerboxer – and maybe you - I had used google (German).

And google told me that she herself never had denied having been a „communist youth leader“ (in FDJ). But half true sometimes is like lying or slandering. The last part of Baerboxer's „changing from a communist youth leader with secret police associations“ isn't proven at all, until now.

With a little bit of (google)knowledge about the former (Eastern) communist state you would know, that the students have been handpicked for a study by some „qualifications“. Intelligence was not a priority. So Merkel's chance to get a university place was the communist youth organization.

@maximimillian, Because of his slandering I asked Baerboxer to enlighten us about „changing from a communist youth leader with secret police associations“. You and B. failed to do so.

37 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Integrity and statesmanship - like changing from a communist youth leader with secret police associations to a Christian Democrat;  ..........

Really?

Please enlighten us about „changing from a communist youth leader with secret police associations“.

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6 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

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And the direct correlation between successes in Thailand's National Parks and the dual pricing system being introduced would actually be pretty strong evidence that it is in the interest of Thailand's wildlife.

Dear Kieran00001, I appreciate your love for national parks (NP). The idea to save them from being vandalized and taking care for „.....is in the interest of Thailand's wildlife.“ Okay.

But the reality is

• Thailand has an abnormal number of NPs. Look here:

  https://www.thainationalparks.com/list-of-national-parks-of-thailand

And it's obvious they include nearly all nice places on beaches, lakes and in forests, mountains. What does come to my mind? Money interests of different kinds – not your ideals.

• sometimes Khon Thais are charged more than all the others, mentioned before. Believe it or not. We just have the nearly „amazing“ story of the very, very wealthy ITD Boss Premchai who killed a rare black tiger and liked to shoot other animals. Although he was caught by conscientious people of the NP in Kanchanabury P. did his „job“ protected by higher ranking people. I guess for a much higher "fee". That alone gives me the idea that at least not all money (fees) payed for the entrance of NPs goes the ideal way for saving wildlife. Instead, NPs serve the interests of some people for getting richer.

Charging the farangs higher than the Thai NP-visitors accelerates the time for getting …. richer … . Surprise , surprise.

Unbelievable, Trump is working faster now ...

                                                                                     by firing qualified people!  Baaahhh.

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

Wow! I am sad just readin about what you just wrote. Oh dear!

 

If you are married or beeing in a realtionship that is supposedly ageed by both parites that it should stay in the version of monogamy. Yeah, then another realtionship or a short time hire for sex is to be treated like an affair. If it´s shor or long time does not matter. That is of course if you choose to understand it like people generally mean and speak. Not if you do like you just did, and examine the technicallity of one single word.

... at least, it would be a reason for a divorce.

But I guess she married Trump not because he was such a nice and smart man. No, a "hansum man" with a lot of mmm.....yy.! Every woman with a certain self esteem would have asked for a divorce. But we don't know about the contract in the background! Within the last 2 years we learned a lot about Trump's ugly character.

1 hour ago, aright said:

That's very interesting!

Prosecution of German Politicians for Bribery a Difficult Task

As the UN continues a campaign to crack down on global political corruption, the German Parliament has balked at reforming its own anti-corruption laws.

When is a bribe a bribe?

In the kind of case that infuriates anti-corruption campaigners, a long-time member of parliament for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia escaped sentencing although he had accepted 95,000 euros ($127,700) from a construction company.

A regional court in Düsseldorf did find that Wilhelm Droste of the conservative Christian Democratic Union did accept the money but could not decide whether the money was a bribe or a payment for "general good behavior."

After the decision Droste referred to the Court’s decision as "glorious."

Interesting. Why? Because you learned from Kellyanne Conway about alternative facts. The judgement you are referring to was in 2006/7, but didn't finish the trial.

The fact is/was, at the end, in 2009, Droste payed a fine of 100.000 Euro + 15.000 € fine for a second similar trial +500 hour work without any payment. The (complicated) judicial procedure stopped in accordance with the law (§153a StPO).

On 3.3.2018 at 2:03 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

Unelected bureaucrats should have nothing to do with creating laws or regulations. That they do so is undemocratic.

Get out, now, and don't look back.

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It's a horror to read comments of Brexit-friends only armed with propaganda delivered by Farage, Johnson and cohorts, but free of knowledge.

1. It seems hard for some British people to understand that the supranational EU system isn't exactly the same as the democratic system in Britain. That doesn't mean the EU-system is undemocratic. It is nearly a federal system. Believe it or not, the EU has a democratic system, not an autocratic one, as falsely repeated many times here in TV. It is democratic, because

• it depends of the separation of powers

  • the EU Commission is the executive power

  • the legislative consists of 2 parts (chambers?)

    • the European parliament chosen by the citizens

    • the Council of Europe, sent by the member states (comparable to the German Bundesrat)

  • the European Court of Justice

One thing makes me   and sad at the same time. Most of the Brexiteers call the EU system undemocratic. Then I have to ask them, why did GB join such a horror-system and staying in it for ~ 40 years?  Do you detect the contradiction to your believe of an undemocratic/autocratic system!

All democracies, be it GB, USA, Sweden, Australia or Germany, i.e., have their own administrations, some call it bureaucracy. But without it no the state – here in this case the EU as a supranational Union – cannot work. Or can you imagine that there is a state without tax-, justice- and other offices? Therefore the EU needs one, too.

There are a lot of Brexiteers that condemn this bureaucracy and believe it's only bad. That there are many, many positive effects... here only a few catchwords

• a uniform, supranational system for the industry, law etc.

• the economic power of a single state nowadays is minimal, the EU is a power factor.

• do you remember the EU fighting against nearly criminal monopolies; as Google, Microsoft, and the fight against astronomic bank fees.

• the custom free area for many, many goods within the EU; saving money just for the not so riches.

• support for the not so rich EU states, especially in the Eastern EU. Although a „pain“ for the money dominated Brexiteers, it helps to avoid wars, solving problems peacefully (for now many years) etc.

…............

"Just a few days ago, my father followed Jesus all the way to heaven," son Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said at the funeral.

…...............

I wonder how BG has found the way to the heaven without GPS or an other navigation system.

And where to go? Milky-way, another universe, At Jesus' time, such tools haven't been available. So, how to follow him?

Another problem (among many). Just to now nobody has found the corpse of Jesus, because he went to heaven!??? But how could Graham follow Jesus to the heaven without (his) body, now put into the earth?

The old wisdom: religion and politics have one thing in common – belief (in something you cannot improve or is against normal sense).

BTW, don't be astonished that Trump was there.

On 1.3.2018 at 12:47 PM, Grouse said:

Actually, I'm with Trump on this. If some nutter went into my kids school with a gun I suspect I WOULD be stupid enough to charge in and make some intervention. I'm no hero but I think that would be a human reaction. Mind you, I am from Yorkshire.

@Grouse, it seems you don't know the difference between what comes out of Trump's mouth and what he does and what is true

Even that doesn't consider his sick-foot-playing for avoiding the Vietnam war. Furthermore, we all know that he changes his childish mind faster than you can think.