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The Samui Organic Farmers Market will be held this Tuesday, April 28, in front of the District Office in Nathon, Samui. Time is from 7 am until 12 noon. Come support organic farmers and farming from all 7 sub-districts of Koh Samui. Please tell others and bring a friend! Thanks again for your support.

Organic Farmers Market, Tuesday, April 21, 7 am until 12 noon, in Nathon in front of the District Office. Come out and support your local organic farmer and eat healthy! See you there!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31, from 7 am until 12 noon, will be the Samui Organic Farmers Market, held at the District Office in Nathon. Come out and get your healthy organic foods grown by farmers in all 7 sub-districts of the island! Stop by and say hi! Bring a friend. See you there!

Various people have been credited with the followiing statement, but it would seem it is correct regardless of who said it. Prayut is speaking in line with this statement, and as such, it would seem he's correct.

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

Not picking sides here, just observing.

Come see us today at the Farmers Market. From 7 am - 12 noon, Nathon in front of the District Office. Get your organic food and support organic farmers from t 7 sub-districts around the island!

Today 24/03/2015.

At this time, it's held every Tuesday from 7 am - 12 noon, same location each week.

Organic Farmers Market to be held on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, across from the District Office in Nathon from 7 am until 12 noon. Come out and support organic farmers from the 7 sub-districts of Koh Samui! Looking forward to seeing familar faces and new friends!

The Farmers Market will be held on this Tuesday, March 10, in front of the Samui District Office in Nathon. The time will be from 7 am - 12 noon. Organic products will be available from all 7 sub-districts of Samui. Come out and support your local organic farmers and products! We look forward to seeing you there!

Thanks Mole. I'll pass your suggestions along to her.

Thanks, Mole. I'll talk to Tanya about tomatoes (she's the lady in the 5th picture)....she's the one who gets me to post this here....:

Glad you made it out. It's supposed to be a continually running event, so hopefully it'll grow with more stalls/vendors and more folks coming out to support it.Thank you for your support!

The Farmers Market will be held on Tuesday, March 3 in front of the District Office in Nathon, Samui.

Thanks to all who came out last week. It was a success. We look forward to seeing everyone there agaiin tomorrow!

How awesome! I hope it will happen again?

Next Tuesday.....see my most recent reply/post.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Farmers Market in Nathon yesterday. It was a great success. We will be holding another Farmers Market next Tuesday, March 3, at the same location, in front of the Samui District Office in Nathon. Tell a friend, come out yourself, and bring a friend!

One day event, Farmers Market. Feb. 24, 2015 in front of Samui District Office, Nathon. Start time is 7:00 am.

Organic fruits, vegetables and more from local Samui farmers.

Don't miss this opportunity to get healthy food for your consumption!

See you there!

What a load of crap. Why do so many "experts" think that government spending is the way to prosperity? Governments are consumers of wealth. Only the private sector can create new wealth. All the government can do is spend money it didn't earn by taking money away from those who earned it via taxes, or spending borrowed money.

Thailand simply needs to make it easier for companies to get established in Thailand, make it possible for people to own 100% of what they invest in, and stop the confiscation of investment money via import taxes on materials and equipment needed to do business. If Thailand want's to continue to prohibit foreigners from owning land, fine. Most big businesses don't want to own their premises. They want to invest in business expansion.

When the clueless like this make these statements, they are in effect recommending that everyone stand in a circle with their hands in each others' pockets so they'll all get rich. They have no clue about what it takes to make it easy to create new wealth to share. (New wealth would be a car built from raw materials, etc.)

I agree with you, NeverSure. The writers of the article are Keynesian economists, which is a failed and severely flawed economic theory. Pure b.s. from the writers of the article.

A valid reason to point to the right and neccessity of citizens to be armed. To defend against criminals who are armed. Were the two criminals, outside of not having permits? We don't know based upon this article.

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

-- "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract of 1774-1775

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

-- Cesare Beccaria

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court

"Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater."

-- Peter Venetoklis

"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."

-- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

-- Adolph Hitler, April 11 1942.

Time and again, history has proven that when government gets out of the way, cuts taxes, cuts over-bearing regulations and restrictions, the economy grows out of the doldrums. These so called experts aren't.

I know of a nice pool right outside of Phon Thong...but don't know the name of it. Nice pool and they have decent food, too.

"Ex"-Communists, Red Shirts. Really no difference. My wife is from Surat Thani, and several of her family members were killed by the communists hiding in the jungles around her home because they either spoke out against the communist, or named supporters living in the area. Red Shirts kill those who oppose them, too.

What does article 7 actually say?

"Section 7. Whenever no provision under this Constitution is applicable to any case, it shall be decided in accordance with the constitutional practice in the democratic regime of government with the King as Head of the State."

Now, "the democratic regime of government with the King as Head of the State" is merely the long-winded definition of the Thai constitutional monarchy, so is just one long compound noun defined in section 2.

The phrase 'constitutional practice" is not defined, but we must assume means those sections that define rights and obligations without defining specific actions - and as we are witnessing, there are many such 'black holes' in the document.

So, section 7 says: if the Constitution does not tell you what to do, do whatever you want, so long as it is not prohibited.

The idea that the President of the Senate can select an interim Prime Minister is not written anywhere but is consistent with our simplified definition of section 7. The only tiny problem is that the Constitution explicitly states that a PM must also be an MP.

So perhaps our esteemed chief justice would interpret section 7 as saying: if the Constitution does not tell you what to do, do whatever you want, so long as it is not prohibited.

And remember, this is not a judicial coup; nope, not at all.

BTW I have always said that, given the House was not going to be able to convene, the Senate would eventually select a new Council of Ministers, but how are they going to ignore the requirement of the PM? I'm sure a carefully worded decree can get around anything, but it also has to overcome the decree itself being potentially unconstitutional! Who wrote this crappy constitution?! Don't ask.

Who voted for this constitution…The majority!!!

We call that 'constitution vote' a 'Hobson's choice'.

A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option, the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; "take it or leave it". The phrase is said to originate with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner in Cambridge, England. To rotate the use of his horses, he offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in the stall nearest the door or taking none at all.

Worse than a Hobson's choice, was the crime they created if you criticized the proposed constitution. So faults in the constitution couldn't even be discussed openly.

So it badly tilted the Senate in favor of the elite and their party the 'Democrats', and in turn the bodies of state populated by the Senate too became distorted and corrupt in favor of the elite and the 'Democrats'.

You mention the elite...is Thaksin and his family, with their uber-wealth, not considered to be one of the elite? It would seem that they are, no?

But wasn't Chalerm gonna clean it all up, and arrest all the leaders, within 3 days ?

Now I remember that statement was a month ago.

I thought he was going to off himself if a certain person from Dubai didn't return to Thailand within a specified time. Has that time come? Come on, keep your word!