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Looking at the OP photo he is wearing the rank of a Lieutenant General. However you are certainly right that there are several others, with more time served (and therefore perhaps more contacts) also eying the job. He is obviously not that well thought of by his peers, if very publicly machine gunning his car when it was parked outside a knocking shop a few years ago is anything to go by!

My cousin's husband was a copper in the UK ( just retired now). Last time I was visiting I went for a drink with him and a few of his mates. I was telling them what the RTP get up to, they were in hysterics!

Hmm, particularly as, let's face it, hers was the face on the mind of the vast majority of those people who voted for Pheu Thai. Still, I suppose that they are used to being ignored, poor saps; just came round a bit quicker this time - there are certain deadlines looming...

I'm perhaps taking a punt here, but most of us active ( or reading) Thai Visa/ASEAN Now are expatriates from Western countries, probably retired on various permutations of private and state pensions, married ( or have been) to Thai nationals. Add in a number who are still working (teachers and others) who will almost certainly be in the last quartile of their working lives. Financially reasonably secure perhaps, but light years away from the sort of wealth which these schemes and cards are aimed at. We are not in the frame, never have been, and never will be for the company/companies/agencies operating these schemes. They are not in the slightest bit interested in us, nor really most of us in them.

Yay for reality TV!

People get terribly excited about Trump's favourability ratings within the Republican Party. That is not quite the same thing as his favourability ratings within the national electorate.

Umh, isn't that what police forces are supposed to do all the time - sort of why they exist?

Wissanu is often described as an "expert". Now he is effectively out of office, but still holding forth, he exemplifies the definition of "expert" as: " ex is something which has been, a spurt is what happens when you put a drip under pressure"!

He has decided to protest - if you can't beat 'em join 'em. He has gone out with a can of petrol to burn down his local bus stop!

Yes, if the judicial system through which they were fighting was independent, and not owned and controlled by the establishment, an establishment which has just demonstrated the regard in which it holds democracy, fairness and the rule of law.

A technique which used to be known as a "Beirut unload" - keep your finger on the trigger until it stops going"bang"!

The price of the insulin which I am dependent on here in Thailand is a few percent of the price in the US, what is more it is produced in and imported from Europe (Poland). The amount which the Pharmaceutical Industry in the USA charges for Insulin is an example of the wicked greed which drives the industry. I am no socialist but in the particular case of the American Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries I would nationalise them and start again. They are an utter disgrace.

You don't need that really - after all European fascism was never really reliant on such procedures. So just enough people to form a crowd, in some sort of a uniform (used to be brown shirts, but now silly red hats seem to be de rigeur) to bellow "lock em up". It's nice if their collective IQ is greater than the sum of the BMIs of the crowd, but not essential, and even looking at some of the pretty impressive BMIs to be observed at Trump rallies, somewhat unlikely! The "American Experiment" has gone a little astray!

A waxwork would have the greater intellectual potential...

Well from observation, McConnell is a waxwork isn't he?

He received (intercepted?) the appeal yesterday. The previous Prime Minister, serenaded by adoring crowds of civil servants left office yesterday. Did no one tell Wissanu?

Oh dear no - I have a number of blue shirts, it is my preferred colour, and one of the few that are "safe" to wear "politically"!

No doubt he will remain as a valued advisor, along with (certainly) the other one... Then of course there is the new Senate to be formed "soon". I presume he was a "party list" MP, so no need for the embarrassment of finding out just what the voters think in a bye election!

Duplicate post - must be having a "Prawit moment "!

Duplicate post.

No doubt he will remain as a valued advisor, along with (certainly) the other one...

I doubt that MFP will have the opportunity to stand in the next election, or if they do the "reform" of the Senate (a previous post shows that the groundwork is being laid) will ensure again that they get nowhere. Thaksin is by no means the only, and far from the most, corrupt influence in the system!

Probably yes.

Sounds like you are planning to go out with a bang ( well three bands actually)!

Why not go back to the hospital which originally treated you, and put you in the cast?