zaphod reborn

Yeah, I hate when my co-workers leave dirty dishes in the company kitchen sink. Never thought about stabbing them over it. Maybe I need to rethink my priorities.

RIP to the victim. May you find an electric dishwasher in the sky. You'd think a Japanese-owned company would be a little better at keeping its facilities tidy.

We can always use the red-shirt argument. "She was abducted by red-shirts, masquerading as soldiers, in order to discredit the junta". Turnabout is fair play.

Who knows what happened here, or at the temple back in 2010. The only way the truth would ever be discovered is to have an international inquiry, and that will never happen. Any Thai inquiry into the events of 2010 would suffer from bias.

So no proposal as to how this will be funded? Yes, slap a universal emergency care plan, usable at any hospital, on top of an already economically unsustainable medical coverage system. Brilliant!

He was ordered to love and worship the Junta and it's leaders and anything other than 110% devotion to your leaders will not be tolerated. Prayuth wonders why he is not welcome in places like the USA and Australia, this is one of the major reasons and how they picture his Junta. They see it as a total D

I think you've drunk enough kool-aid today. The truth is that Prayuth came to power illegitimately. He has a tendency to say some pretty stupid things. There has been some suppression of press and speech freedoms. Despite all of that, his government has performed fairly well. And the majority of Thais recognize this and are not going to rock the boat to elect another corrupt government which they know will be worse for them. If the suppression of freedoms was severe enough or the government caused them great distress, they would rise up. The army couldn't withstand a major episode of civil unrest. Patience, however, is wearing thin and the Junta will need to soon get a new constitution in place and make way for elections. Don't try to impose your western democratic values upon a situation that requires a different solution. That would be failing to think outside the box, an attitude most westerners criticize the Thais for lacking.

Seems they quickly accepted his wounds were self-inflicted. I wonder if there is more to this story.

Nothing the cleric says would support a claim that the search was traumatic or that he was mistreated. The photo-op is unnecessary but SOP for the RTP.

And no American should accept any IRS inquiry or correspondence as being authentic. The entire agency has been discredited and lost its authority. How is a regular citizen to know if they are actually dealing with an IRS official acting within their legal capacity? They act like thugs, and should all be treated as criminals. Let the tax courts settle tax matters, not criminals.

Well I'm not an expert, but I do work in Government hospitals every week. It doesn't take a MP to know why there are substantial losses. If the money that was taken by the directors was actually put into the hospitals, they would have really nice facilities.

If Thaksin's scheme wasn't viewed as economically sustainable, perhaps some reforms could be implemented to preserve medical care for the bulk of the population.

The baht has been artificially inflated for over a decade. Some devaluation is necessary to restore natural market value.

Maybe they should broaden their horizons and actually consider a foreigner for the post. In other words, someone who might be qualified, competent and not corrupt. Won't happen because beloved Thainess means never thinking outside the box. The copy and paste mentality must be preserved.

Most countries encourage growing of specific crops through a subsidy scheme, not attitude adjustment sessions.

Just let Bangkok flood. Then, water transport will make total sense.

Hail the Note 2. I knew there was a reason for hanging on to my before upgrading to an Edge.

Nonsense. Allowing selection of a non-MP PM is a way of resolving political stalemate. I would prefer direct election of a president to reduce the control exercised by corrupt political parties over the parliamentary process, but enough of the hysteria drummed up by the media.

A Prime Minister not elected by the people is just not the right way to do it. History has shown that.

PMs are never elected, but always selected by the MPs. It's not a democratic process, but rather a representative one. If you want an elected leader, you would support general election of a president or premier. There's little difference between a PM who was elected by a very small part of the country, and a non-PM. It doesn't make the process any more democratic that the PM be a current MP.

Obviously KMITL was a model for financial management and fraud control. Why shouldn't they have been awarded the contracts?