John Drake

Pattaya, the devil's playground.

It's okay, because the Thai government is neutral and says Thais are not being targeted.

And the Thai government doesn't want to take sides.

I love the truck! Long live the truck!

So Thailand is going to run Chinese agitprop exclusively.

"Get"??? No, they'll be forking over 10,000 instead.

My avatar agrees with you.

After reading through the list up until right this moment, I can think of three more forgotten series worth being put up. 1. The Invaders (1967-68), with Roy Thinnes 2. The River (2012), a TV explorer goes missing in Amazonia on a river that alters space and time, with Bruce Greenwood. 3. Shogun (1980), the mini-series based on James Clavell's novel.

I have never seen that one, although I've always wanted to. I don't think it ever ran on US television. Another obscure cult classic, sort of like Coronet Blue, I would guess from its description.

Good one. A couple of others in that vein, Ripcord and Whirlybirds.

I'm sort of with you on that score. I began to tire of TV when story arcs became ever present, replacing episodic TV. The only story arc series I ever liked ran for but one season, Nowhere Man (1995-96), with Bruce Greenwood.

Gaza can get the water, food, and electricity turned back on, according to Israel. All they need to do is release the hostages.

Just saw on the Bangkok Post that Twitter/X has removed "hundreds" of Hamas affiliated accounts and "tens of thousands" of items of content since the terror raid. Apparently, this online Hamas assault was coordinated with the real-time terror attack.

Are you interested in knowing how many Jews that year were in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus? How many are there now?

So how do you feel about Hamas and Gaza being the recipients of support/survival from the Club of Dictators and Despots?

The shaping of alliances becomes clearer and clearer. Dictators Putin and Xi (and it looks increasingly like Erdogan, too) on the side of the mullahs in Iran who organized and train Hamas and Hezbollah. On the other side the US, India, and Europe (although timidly at times) back Israel. Even with the sometimes irksome Modi, I know which side I feel is more decent.

In 2016, Palestine was part of Ottoman Syria. I know the British later launched an invasion of the area, but I'm not sure when and through which routes--and I'm too tired to look it up. Anyway, the entire region was part of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years. Palestine has never existed as a country, as far as I know, although interestingly when the term was used during the 1930s and after World War II, it was applied to Jews that lived there.

Because one side murdered and took Thais hostage, while the other side did not.

"Crossfire"??? Seems that Hamas captured and killed at least some of them, while continuing to hold others hostage? And the government is neutral with this being done to their own citizens?

I'm thinking it is, because it seems designed to catch Thais' overseas income. At least if your wife has no income, however, it will give her a cushion before any taxes are owed. My wife already makes more at her job than I do with my social security and retirement annuity. We would pay even more if I tried to transfer money from overseas to her, I'm guessing.

And there are guys with machine guns and shotguns standing right at the entrance because of the friendly environment.

Sounds like UKers and Europeans are being coraled back into their home countries. Your governments want their money back, it seems. Why is it that multiculturalism and diversity is "wrong" when Westerners to places like Thailand but is a "strength" when it goes the other way?

Too bad damn Wagon Train ran against it. Far ahead of its time.

Says the man who has put up more than 1300 posts on AN in less than a year.

Danger Man is right up there with those, as is Roger Moore's The Saint.