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Had Mr Obama did his job when he had to, did not procrastinated, hesitated and turned a blind eye to what is going on

in the Syria, by first arming militias and the free Syrian army to dislodge Assad from power, drawing a line in the sand saying

that he will act decisively if chemical were to used, they have been used several times, and still nothing from Obama,

meanwhile some of the militias fighting Assad has joined the Taliban and other , soldiers of fortune extreme rouge factions

type and you have ISIS,

Assad on his part bombed his own cities and people killing hundreds of thousand, and causing millions to flee to a neighbouring

countries inflecting untold misery and destructions on the region that now resulted in the mass migrations of all those refugees,

I wonder what Mr. Obama narrative to all of this follies of his when he will sit down one day to pen his memoirs....

Yes I agree he should have moved on Syria after all American intervention in Iraq has proved such a resounding success with the contagion now spreading to other countries that another adventure is just what we need. Still if some of those GOP candidates get their way we can also add Iran, that should be fun.

Not to mention the other US successes in Libya, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq... More toppled regimes, followed by failed states and the current refugee crisis... Rand Paul this week blamed Hillary Clinton directly for these US foreign policy failures and the refugee crisis due to her actions as Sec of State...

The story of ISIS and Syria goes much deeper though if you scratch the surface, such as the Pentagon admitting to funding, training and arming ISIS in an attempt to overthrow Assad and the mysterious Sarin gas attacks that were traced to US weapons labs, then to Turkey, then to Syrian rebels... All of which is documented fact that you won't hear it from western media... The only evil here is Uncle Sugar...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/06/seymour-hersh-links-turkey-to-benghazi-syria-and-sarin/

"According to Thai news site Khaosod, Mr Walsh had been persuaded to travel to Udon Thani to the visit the family of his girlfriend, who he had met approximately one month earlier in the popular resort of Pattaya.

Apparently, Mr Walsh and his girlfriend were going to announce their plans to get married to his her parents and the rest of the family."

Getting arrested was probably the best thing which could happen to this moron.

How do you know he is a moron? Do you know what went on?

The scenario is quite predictable with only a few variations, all of which end with this bloke being a moron... I mean really, who other than a moron would marry a hooker after knowing her for only one month? You need at least three months to figure out what her cash-flow is for doing the horizontal mambo...

The world would be a much safer place if all religions were banned for humanitarian reasons...

Nice of this administration to encumber the next administration with the knowledge they will have to accept 100,000 refugees per year from the ME... Something tells me that if a certain candidate with a bad hairdo gets elected, this executive action will get shit canned, post haste...

They are kidding themselves if they do not include alcohol as a drug and there are an awful lot of alcoholics in Thailand... Nice try, but no cigar...

FBI has reported more terror attacks by white supremacists than Muslim terrorists since 9/11. You could look it up.

Internet has brought great things to most of us, but also provides a means for what used to be scattered band of nut cases to connect and form a community, be it TV, ISIS, Islamophobes. They they can reinforce their own version of reality.

I would also say abandonment of "fairness doctrine" in US media has allowed organizations like Fox News to report and slant stories any way they wish, brainwashing the gullible mostly white audience who are distressed by change. They want the "good old days" when white men ruled, women knew their place, minorities stayed in line, and God (Christian, of course) was king.

No, if you are going to make a hair-brained assertion, then you need to provide a reference... Like this one...

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm

Islamic Terror Attacks on American Soil

You might not know it from the grand pity party that vocal Muslims seem to have thrown forthemselves in the years since 9/11, but only one Muslim in America was killed in a vigilante "revenge" attack following the horrific slaughter of thousands in the name of Allah. That would be Waqar Hasan, a Muslim convenience storeowner who was gunned down by Mark Anthony Stroman in Texas. Hardly an average American, Stroman was a white supremacist with a felony criminal record who went on to shoot two more people in the following weeks. However, he did claim to be motivated by anger after having watched the twin towers fall.

For anyone keeping score

People killed by radical Muslims on 9/11: 2,996 Muslim-Americans killed "in revenge": 1

At first I thought this might actually be an OpEd of how the US has either progressed or regressed as a society, on which I would have been interested, but instead it turns out to be yet another hit-piece on the front-running GOP candidate run by the Nation of all rags... Why am I not surprised... The question is, who wrote it as the author is not named? It was obviously not written by the staff at the Nation because the diction is correct... My guess is was spoon fed to the media by the likes of the AP, Reuter or perhaps even the DNC... TPTB must really be scared of people they cannot control...

I was not aware Thailand had implemented any of these policies. Where might one find information about it?

You might begin by studying the UN initiative known as Agenda 21, which was put into action in 1992... Funny how this announcement coincides with the push for Agenda 2030 which is being announced at the UN's 70th General Assembly...

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/memberstates.html?utm_source=OldRedirect&utm_medium=redirect&utm_content=dsd&utm_campaign=OldRedirect

Is it safe? Is it safe?.....Is it safe?........ Wheres the drill?

I learned about Oil of Cloves from that movie... Works like a charm...

" a questioner at a town hall event who incorrectly stated that President Barack Obama is Muslim "

We have members here who assert the same falsehood.

He's been the best POTUS of most of our lifetimes.

Is he hated and called the worst POTUS ever? Sure. There was a crow that hated LBJ for giving civil rights, another that hated Eisenhower for enforcing Brown v. Board of Ed and there were plenty of those that hated Lincoln for Emancipation Proclamation. So this is nothing new.

When they can't beat him (they tried twice), they just call him names. It's part of being a loser!

I would really like to understand your thought process on why he is the best POTUS in your lifetime... On one point alone he is a disaster, which is the national debt... When he took office, US debt was roughly $9 trillion USD... Today, it is over $18 trillion USD, which is a greater expansion of national debt than by all previous presidents combined... If that is your measure of success, then I assert your priorities are way out of whack...

I've been waiting for the correct response, but it appears no one here has a memory longer than their "johnson"...

Trump was the person that badgered the Obama administration until they released a copy of Obama's birth certificate... You know, the one that was proven to be a forgery in the first 15 minutes after it was released... Trump has his doubts about Obama's origins, like many, but it appears his handlers have finally gotten him to think before be blurts out his true thoughts in front of a camera... At this point it matters little where Obama came from as he is a lame duck and will be out of office soon enough... Unfortunately his legacy will be felt by those he swore to protect for years to come...

EDIT: Add link showing where Obama's own attorney admits the birth certificate was a forgery...

http://occupycorporatism.com/obamas-lawyers-officially-admit-birth-certificate-is-fake/

Who wants a failed CEO as POTUS? When she ran AT&T and HP, she lost over 50% of stockholder value in these two companies... We already have a POTUS with zero business experience, the only thing worse would be to put a failed CEO in his place...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yale-professor-carly-fiorinas-business-193457030.html

Yale professor on Carly Fiorina's business record: She 'destroyed half the wealth of her investors yet still earned almost $100 million'

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/carly-fiorina-s-record-at-hewlett-packard--by-the-numbers-184234108.html

And where is the UN and the numpties from Brussels in all of this? Oh, they are too busy handing out platitudes and giving each other a reach-around to deliver any type of real solution, like stopping the western destruction of Iraq and Syria, and providing aid to these people in their own countries... Sad, but true...

I've spent quite a bit of time in Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia... Nothing wrong with living in Panama, except for a few basic things...

First, there are only around 3.5 million people in the entire country... Not a lot of people around unless you are in Panama City...

Imported goods are expensive and since very little is made in Panama, everything from food to furniture is costly... You may not be able to find certain goods you are accustomed to using...

Panama does not issue their own currency and uses the USD as it's official currency... Price controls on goods were introduced some time ago due to the rise in the USD on the world FX market and caused the price on imported goods to sky rocket and shortages ensued... Being tied to the USD will also have an inflationary effect on assets until the USD normalizes or crashes...

There is not a lot to do in Panama... Boredom is a problem with expats... If you think Thailand is a cultural wasteland, you will not like Panama...

Corruption is rife in the government and police force... If you want something done, you have to grease the works... Nothing new for a seasoned Thai expat...

Outside Panama City, being able to speak Espanol is a necessity...

Crime is an issue within Panama in all forms; kidnappings, extortion, credit card / ATM fraud, violent crime...

It is a latin country, so expect the machista attitude amongst men...

Having said the above, Panama made the my top 5 places to live once I left the USA... Thailand was number 1 on the list and I'm still here...

Just imagine what has washed out of the severs into that water standing on the roads... Not a good idea to be out wading around in it...

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http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

That picture sure looks like a homemade something and its PERFECTLY SANE to be suspicious of a Muslim with a contraption like that on them, ESPECIALLY if you dont know what you are looking at.

Better safe than sorry and all this hoopla is the Politically Correct Brigade spouting off and in this day and age its times to throw that crap out the window.

Rubbish bigoted racial profiling and stereotyping.

What would have been "PERFECTLY SANE" in the circumstances would have been to evacuate the building, and for the police to call the bomb squad....IF THEY TRULY THOUGHT IT WAS A BOMB.

But they didn't do that which proves the teacher, the principle, and the four police are idiots OR they did not actually think it was a bomb.

And if they didn't think it was a bomb, why did they harass the boy?

What do you expect from the USA, considering that every man, woman and child has been conditioned (programmed) to distrust all muslims since 9/11/2001... Classic case of watch the shiny object, while the real evil runs amuck pulling the strings...

On the upside, this episode got the kid an invite to the White House, along with a nun that advocates abortions and an openly gay catholic priest... We truly do live in interesting times...

Biden is correct. Disgusting Don is a hater. He hates women. He hates foreigners. He hates blacks. He hates Mexicans. He hates most anything and everything. Just the scowl on that fantastically ugly face is proof of that. Hating is what he does best.

All this rage for someone whose core message is to secure the borders and expel anyone that entered and stays in the country illegally... My you do have an imagination if nothing else...

I am referring to his track history, not the silly comments he has made in the last few weeks. This man has a long and illustrious history of hatred, hostility, theft, bankrupting his companies, and walking away with hundreds of millions, etc. This thief is a charlatan. He is snookering a lot of people with his disgusting dialogue. He is a fraud.

Trump's business practices are well known and successful... How else do you think he got rich? Like any good business person, he isolates his risk to each property, with each asset isolated within it's own corporate structure... So, if one asset / property fails to produce or goes belly up, it does not take down the rest of his portfolio... If you call taking advantage of the current tax / corporate law structure evil, then you are not far from wrong, but you are blaming the player, not the game...

Biden is correct. Disgusting Don is a hater. He hates women. He hates foreigners. He hates blacks. He hates Mexicans. He hates most anything and everything. Just the scowl on that fantastically ugly face is proof of that. Hating is what he does best.

All this rage for someone whose core message is to secure the borders and expel anyone that entered and stays in the country illegally... My you do have an imagination if nothing else...

I wonder if anyone has told Elton John that the phone call he supposedly received from Putin was a hoax?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/vladimir-putin-phones-elton-john-after-request-to-discuss-gay-rights-in-russia

And to support Trump's assertions...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/14/federal-data-u-s-annually-admits-quarter-of-a-million-muslim-migrants/

http://cis.org/Immigrant-Population-Hits-Record-Second-Quarter-2015

Well, that escalated quickly...

We can only assume you were not paying taxes in Thailand either for your business activity, considering you were also subverting the visa / work permit process... Lucky you left when you did, I hear the monkey house is not a nice place...

I 've never heard about any country in the world where you can conduct business 100% free of charge without paying some direct or indirect taxes and the indirect local taxes that I was contributing were more than 5 million baht per annum which is a lot considering the small size of my business.

besides NY city which is considered to be one of the wealthiest city in the world have more than 15% of its workforce illegal and many top economists concluded that deporting them will cause a massive stock-market collapse, the same goes for Italy which has 20% of its GDP coming out from illegal foreigners as for Thailand it s either share the cake or they will be no cake at all.

some TV members are clapping their hands and cheering each time a new regulation restricting visas comes into effect and targeting those visa runners which they consider them to be a sort of unwanted pest, let me tell you that when the Chinese becomes very dominant here they will close all other businesses which cater to westerners, surprisingly last month I was refused a hotel room in a luxury resort in koh samet simply because they said that their Chinese customers don't want to have any other nationalities in their resort even the restaurant was closed to westerners note that this hotel is 10K per night.

I never said that it doesn't happen or that I was condemning you for your actions... I merely made the assumption, correctly so, that you were not paying taxes for your staff... That is illegal in Thailand, no matter whether thousands of Thai business' do the same... My point is that foreigners come under more scrutiny in these cases and if caught, face still fines and potential imprisonment... From your other replies, it sounds like you don't care and like operating close to the edge... It is my experience that those that knowingly operate illegally are living on borrowed time as sooner or later it will come back to bite you... Hell, a foreigner operating a legal business in Thailand is at a disadvantage to Thai nationals for a variety of reasons...

As far as your visa comments, it is about time that Thailand tightened visa exemptions because people have been taking advantage of this loophole to stay in Thailand for years without a proper visa... You and you company are perfect examples of why... It is not rocket science...

Story...got a dog 2 days ago. She's not realy a dog person. I didn't insist....asked her if she was ok with it....10 times to make sure. Told her maybe a week or two settling in with it maybe difficult. She understood she said. We or I had a dog in Australia. Drove 5 hours to pick it up. Back home. Super clean small breed dog. Everything seemed fine. I was delighted. Next day she's in a mood. Dog smell bad make vomit. Sat out the front of the home all day. Complained. As far as I could tell there was no smell. No sht etc. I mopped the back of the home twice. Still no good. I mean maybe she smelt something but this woman is the hypochondriac to end all hypochondriac. What got me most was the fact I don't think I've ever asked her for one thing. I asked her and she cudnt come up with anything. The one time I ask her for something for me she can't even try. I suspect it was jealousy of the dog. (and don't get me started about jealous!). So, that's what triggered this Tiff. I wake up this morning, take a shower and put the dogs in the back of the truck to take back. The messages start. If I take the dog back she'll leave. "I go Surin for try new lady". 100 other crazed messages. After driving an hour I come back thinking she's willing to try with the dog. "Can't live with dog". That is 100% true story. Does anyone want a French bulldog?

Geez, take a hint from her behavior... She's not trying to get rid of the dog, she wants rid of you... If it were me, I would oblige her...

Why didn't your foreign staff have a Non B visa and a work permit ? You are openly admitting that your foreign staff were working on ED and Tourist Visas... Either a troll or a perfect example of the fact that you can send a man to the moon but you still can't fix stupid.

I am not the only business that were running this way, you can not waste your time and resources applying for a very complicated paperwork for some staff who will stays 5 or 7 months working with you, the staff were constantly changing and there is no flexible visa work scheme such as the Australian working holiday visa program, the Cambodian business visa however is straightforward you pay $300 to an agent and you have a one year visa without any hassle.

only a fool thinks that foreigners will compete or steal jobs or wealth from locals, take a look at north Korea which illustrates the best example when a country closes its doors completely to foreigners.

We can only assume you were not paying taxes in Thailand either for your business activity, considering you were also subverting the visa / work permit process... Lucky you left when you did, I hear the monkey house is not a nice place...

Perhaps Rick will return to Texas to visit the other village idiot, GWB...