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Hmm, we now know that whoever pulls the strings at the AP is not a fan of The Donald... It's rather funny that the more the establish pundits come out against him, the better his polling numbers... It appears that either the sheeple are waking up -or- they are being entertained by the Jerry Springer style campaign Trump is running...

You're right about sheeple, and about the (Jerry) Springeresque campaign, but I think your options are off.

There's no waking up! It's just par for the course of the Great Unwashed.

They're not entertained, they're enthralled...as would be expected by Spingeresque sensationalism. They lap it up.

Trump is shallow, boorish, conceited, over-sensitive, undiplomatic, and has no humility. He has all the attributes of a North Korean dictator, and none of the characteristics required of a world leader.

I agree with most of your observations about Trump, but in the absence of any other candidate having the balls to address the real problems facing the US, The Donald is it... Which is exactly why he will get the GOP nomination and go on to win the white house... The Dems don't have a candidate strong enough to beat him in the general election... The pattern that is developing is exactly the same as the run up to the 1980 Reagan coronation...

Where can you drive for fun in thailand?

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In the mountains for one...

I'm much in the same spot as the OP and have been actively looking for a "toy"... Something with stupid horsepower, light weight, handles like a go kart, easy to wrench on and something I can get parts for... So far I've narrowed it down to the following...

Mitsubishi Lancer or Evo...

Subaru WRX

Mini S or JCW or GP

Bolt-on parts are readily available for all of the above to improve performance, handling and styling, so not re-inventing the wheel...

I'm leaning toward the Mini S R53 because I know my way around the car and have had a couple in the past, so I know what breaks on them... Easy to get 240hp with bolt-on parts and re-chipping, along with suspension parts to tighten it up...

Hmm, we now know that whoever pulls the strings at the AP is not a fan of The Donald... It's rather funny that the more the establish pundits come out against him, the better his polling numbers... It appears that either the sheeple are waking up -or- they are being entertained by the Jerry Springer style campaign Trump is running...

^^^ They have no rights and no power. They gave that away for feel-good PC rhetoric they still don't understand. They gave up their rights to self defense in favor of letting the government protect them and see where that is getting them, all over Europe.

Cheers.

Not just in the EU...

It isn't about bribery per se... You dismissed her belief system as a fantasy... No amount of pak wan is going to get you out of this one... Best to go buy a dozen amulets, start drinking lao khoa the village elders, go to temple to make merit and beg forgiveness...

What's up with all the attacks on Kelly's good looks and immediately casting as "Bimbo", definition is " An attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman" per Oxford dictionary. She is intelligent (surprisingly for Fox) and asked relevant questions. This sort of bimbo attack is all too common among sexist jerks who post here, imho. Should she go have plastic surgery to make herself ugly? Trump is an obnoxious narcissist (they tend to react with great anger with anyone who dares question their greatness). He speaks his mind, that is true. But his mind is a petty, mean, narrow self-serving demagogues mind. And you want this for President?

An intelligent journalist would not open the GOP debates with an attack on the candidate leading in the polls... So from that respect, Megyn's line of questioning puts her in the feminist - bimbo category... Not a question on policy or platform or any of the real issues facing the US, but instead a hit piece designed to embarrass and put him on the spot in front of a national audience... It was very well planned and executed, only to backfire in their faces and Kelly is bearing the brunt of the blow-back...

There is a reason that Faux News has as many hotties for on-air personalities as they do... It sells advertising and brings ratings, which is the primary goal, not being fair and balanced about anything...

Who would you rather watch reading a prepared script, Candy Crowley or Megyn Kelly?

Hardly surprising when you consider that Ailes just went public, stating that he and Faux News are going to "save" America from Trump... Looks like Rupert Murdoch has instructed Ailes to take the poison pill and play their ratings card with GOP voters... Not a smart thing to do when going up against someone that has an overwhelming lead in the polls, which is the Faux News demographic...

China has also dumped over $100 billion in UST since the devaluation of the Yuan... This all but precludes a rate hike by the Fed in September as the last thing the US needs is a stronger USD in light of FX collapses in emerging markets...

So Angela, what is your plan for the 800,000 refugees currently in Germany and the thousands more heading your way?

I am going the other way... Since I have been back in Thailand full time, I've dropped 5 - 6 kilos... Healthier food, fresh fruit every day, playing golf 3 - 4 times a week and when not on the golf course either cycling or in the gym... I enjoy a few beers every week but am hardly a bar hound... It's the beers that will get you, after all it is just liquid bread...

"charged with possession of a illegal weapon"...

As former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said:

"The FBI does not investigate machines. It investigates people, and to say she is not one of the people being investigated is ridiculous."

Michael Mukasey was the AG who told Congress that since the Bush-Cheney Justice Department had declared waterboarding to be legal, it could not investigate waterboarding which Mulkasey anyway said was a good idea despite it being prohibited in US law and in all of the international conventions.

The FBI said it is not investigating anyone in respect of the emails, and that there is no criminal investigation occurring. FBI is assisting the intelligence community and DepState in examining and analysing criteria and protocols used by DepState intelligence officers to determine classifications. That is it.

The Right that worships Dick Cheney is determined to build, nay, create and manufacture, a case against HRC when a case does not exist. More than determined....fiercely set on it, and the Right that is directing the Republican party is of course and as always wrong, wrong, wrong again and again. They don't quit cause the don't know how to quit or why they need to quit.

The FBI has said maybe a hundred times now it is not investigating HRC and that no criminal investigation is underway or being contemplated. Yet the Right and the Republicans go on and on and on about it in their highly financed rightwing mass of daily media that has one single political agenda, which is to prevail in the election by hook or by crook.

It's Monday so it's meet the new line of crap day. Tomorrow will be Tuesday so it will be meet the next new line of crap day. Et cetera et cetera goes the right.....

When all else fails, blame Bush...

Well i have never used a Mac, is it easy to learn?.

But i'm tired of Windows actually, i hate all those updates and stupid crap i get all the time. Adobe and java problems, Chrome who crashes all the time, zip-files that i can't download easy, pictures in the email who won't show up, no virus scanner for free, no Office for free and so on.

When i buy me a mac air will all those problems be over or will i get into new problems all the time? And what about a Mac-pro? Is that even better then an ordinary Mac or not?

My previous notebook burned out because of the heat while it was less then 2 years old and they (Fujitsu Siemens) wouldn't help me with it because it was out of warranty. By European law they had to fix it for me because all durable products (like computers) have to get 3 years full warranty but they didn't even care for that law.

And if i buy a Mac Air is there something special i have to look for?

I had the same concern when deciding to switch from Windoze to Mac... I installed a program called Parallels that allows you create and run a Windoze virtual machine on the Mac... Works great... It even has an option to import a machine image from an existing machine, so you import the image from your current laptop... You then have both your old Windoze image running on your Mac, plus the new ios features...

Yep, Mac Air has a SSDD (solid state disk drive, not shame shit different day)... No moving parts, no heat... I've had the same problem will all previous laptops I have owned... Not with the Mac Air...

Not everyone has been mailing in as the old office could process a 90 day report any time you showed up almost with a turnaround of 1-2 hours. For some people who live close to the old office this was acceptable. Only since the move to Promenada has it become an all day job. I expect everyone will be mailing from now on. I have had no personal mail delivered for one and half years, only bills arrive. I may post and have to visit in person when nothing is posted back? A few other posters have problems with the post. This is why visiting the old office was no problem for some people. Most people have been caught out by believing the move to Prom was going to improve CM Immigration performance. No warnings were issued that the new office would struggle to handle 90 day reports.

I don't think immigration was given any warning of the influx of people doing the 90 day in person. Maybe when the people have seen the new office they will go back to mailing in reports.

Why would you think "immigration needed a warning of the influx of people doing the 90 day in person." This is what these people do for a living. Immigration officers are well aware of how many expats are residing in Chiang Mai. Immigration requires foreigners to show up at their office every 90 days, and once a year for the yearly visa, and they aren't prepared???

According to immigration officers that were present during their presentation at the CM Expat club, once they moved to their new location at Promenada, they would have addition staff to vastly improve their services.

When I showed up at the Promenada immigration office, I was really taken back at the staff shortage and how all foreigners are required to sit outside while immigration officers are sitting in an air-conditioned office, woefully unprepared to process the people they require to report to this office. You just can't make stuff like this up.

Over promise and under deliver... Are we really surprised?

You would think that immigration offices would have an on-demand report generated from visa data that would indicate the volume of customers for a given location... You could also imagine that they could then gauge demand and staff offices accordingly... Having a bit of insight into the capability of Thai government IT staff and programmers, I seriously doubt this information is readily available to immigration offices... Just look at the way they handle IT issues... When the immigration office moved to Promenada, the online reservation system was shut down because it could not handle the new location... A simple software update would have corrected the issue, but no, they shut down the entire system... Go figure...

Hmm, I wonder if he is insinuating that the mastermind behind the bombing may be from Dubai...

Rubbish to all of you (except bendejo)....(and Simple1)

New Zealand is a case in point. I lived there since before 9/11 and up till 2 years ago. Auckland has a significant Muslim population, including a Muslim school and many mosques. There has never been any problems at all, and it's because of the NZ culture: Welcoming to all, but you're laughed out of the place if you try anything non-secular or expect special treatment. The key is the culture of laughing things off, not fighting or forcing.. "You want what???" "Hehe, sorry mate, we don't do that here.":...and guess what, the Muslims accept it completely and live in harmony.

Fiji is another place with a big mix of Christian and Muslim (and Hindu).

All this talk about khuffar and dhimmi is tripe. Maybe in Saudi et al, but most Muslims in the West are moderate and do not take the Haddith literally.

Obviously Slovakia is just as non-secular as the non-secular Muslim countries.

It is typically a minority of followers of islam that cause the problems in other cultures when they fail to integrate and then act out on their disapproval of the culture in their adopted countries... It is unfortunate that all are painted with the same brush, but that's the way it is...

Here is one example where a minority of muslims have tainted the entire sect because of their religious beliefs...

French women furious after 'Muslim girl-gang' attacks 'immoral' sunbather for wearing a bikini in a public park

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3175959/Girl-gang-attacks-immoral-sunbather-wearing-bikini-French-park-sparking-JeSuisCharlie-style-social-media-campaign.html

The logic here would dictate that if you cannot accept the culture and societal norms of a country you want to live in, you should probably not move there... This applies to anyone, of any faith, wanting to relocate to a country whose fundamental belief system is diametrically opposed to that of your homeland...

would not be accepted because they would not feel at home.

Has a way with words, doesn't he?

These guys are still fighting the Crusades.

Not fighting the crusades, just trying to protect their culture and society from a religious sect known for not integrating well with other cultures and causing problems in every country they inhabit... Slovakia has done what many other countries in the EU are contemplating... The only question is how long before other countries follow suit...

More bizarro statements coming from the US, much like there is no such thing as an islamic terrorist...

By very definition, what happened at the Erawan shrine is a terrorist act, regardless of who did it...

Hmm, nothing wrong with the current election results, except that Erdogan lost and he doesn't want to give up power...

I would have laughing gas dispensers installed on every street corner in the old city... If nothing else it might improve the attitude of some of the expats that have chosen live here...

Sadly, given the level of English language skills of the majority of Thai - I bet that she cannot even correctly pronounce her own nickname

Of course she can say Flen Fly...

I voted yes.

But keeping in mind of the knowledge of this device at that time. No one knew what level of damage or radiation damage would occur from the use of the bomb. Furthermore, desperate times calls for desperate measures, especially given the level of Japan's ruthless atrocities they committed in war.

What desperate times? The US at the end of the war were steamrolling the Pacific and firebombing multiple cities in Japan, Japan was surrounded and cutoff from anything, Navy was defeated, airforce had no fuel

The resistance that the Japanese put up while the US slogged across the Pacific is one of the primary reasons that Gen LeMay recommended to Truman to use the A bomb, as he estimated an additional 5,000,000+ would die if the US had to invade mainland Japan... If the Russians and Chinese had invaded the northern islands, there would have been no Japanese left to surrender...

My mother was in a Japanese POW camp in Vietnam. If the war had lasted another 6 months

her and her sisters would have died. So for me absolutely. The Japanese were vicious.

My father was stationed on Guam at the end of the war and would have been part of the final push into Japan, so I too feel the atomic bombs was justified for the sake of my own existence... If for no other reason than to stop the war without further deaths...