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One of my neighbors was desperately putting off telling his wife that he had been scammed out of 50,000 baht!

We've already had our 'Horst Wessel moment', so maybe they're meeting to plan the 'Reichstag's Fire!'. Blaming Antifa is much easier than blaming the Jews.

My stepson was about 8 years old when we got married, so I was fairly 'hands off' when it came to raising him. When I did suggest setting some guidelines for his behavior and letting him be free within those guidelines, my wife responded that that was 'not the Thai way'. Instead, children are supposed to just figure out unspoken rules of behavior on their own! One of my wife's sisters married a Thai-Chinese businessman and their kids are very well behaved, well educated and successful. The other sister married an ordinary Thai guy and their two sons were absolutely wild. We haven't had any contact with this second sister for several years (there was a small matter of a stolen inheritance), so I don't know how those boys turned out. My stepson grew up to be well behaved and hard working.

So what's his AN user name? 😉

Death will come for us all, sooner or later. If you have a way of avoiding that please let us know! 😉 Until then, there's really no need to discuss it further.

I suspect that farmers will suffer a bit longer, but before the '26 elections there will be a few hundred billion funneled off to them. However, as others have pointed out, the bailout will undoubtedly benefit the corporate mega-farms more than the small family farms.

I wonder if this will be a flash in the pan or will we look back someday and say "the assassination of Charlie Kirk was the US's 'Horst Wessel' moment.".

She was a Party List MP. Each party is allocated a number of Partly List MPs based on what percent of the vote they won. There are parties that did not win a single Constituent Seat, but won enough votes for a Party MP.

Illegal immigrants do not receive Medicare or Medicaid. However, if an illegal immigrant shows up in an emergency room with a severe injury or an acute health crisis (like appendicitis), the hospital is obligated to treat him or her. IF that person cannot pay the hospital bill, Medicaid will step in and reimburse the hospital. This does not apply to routine health care, only Emergency Room visits. The alternative is to let the person bleed to death at the entrance of the hospital or to make the hospital absorb the costs of the treatment. This procedure follows laws passed under that 'woke, liberal' president Ronald Reagan...

Many years ago a newly employed co-worker asked me if I could introduce him to a loan shark, as he needed some money urgently before his first paycheck. I was reluctant to do so, but eventually hooked him up with the manager of an apartment building that I used to live at (my wife said that she loan-sharked on the side). He borrowed about 20 or 30K from her at 10% monthly interest. I never heard more about this, but he must have paid it off eventually, as he still had all of his fingers and toes when I saw him several years later!

She really shouldn't have lost her temper with him... when he said that her breasts were too small she should have just patted his stomach and said 'too big!'.

The people who voted for Trump used to worry about hostile federalized police and the Government taking away their guns! Now, the FBI, ICE and a federalized National Guard are literally taking over a city and seizing firearms! But instead of admitting that their worst nightmare is coming true, they are cheering it on. Can Magas spell 'cognitive dissonance?' 🤔

Interesting that the article doesn't mention the reason WHY she is suspected... she is married to one of Hun Sen's family. I don't recall if her husband is his son or grandson or nephew. Oops! I did a bit of googling and my memory was off.... one of her cousins married a friend of the Hun family, not her.

Met 23 years ago, married for 22 years.

There's got to be some kind or rational balance between the US "Alligator Alcatraz" and the UK "all expenses paid luxury vacation"!

The most likely nuclear wars would be between Israel and Iran or between India and Pakistan. Both would cause worldwide economic chaos which would effect Thailand. I would be more concerned about food and money than fallout!

She will publicly state that Trump didn't even know Epstein in exchange for a pardon. It's now 26 July, she will be free (or mysteriously dead) by September. No this won't turn MAGA against Trump, they will be too busy clamoring for Obama to be arrested to even notice.

As long as she says the 'right' things, she will be pretty much guaranteed a pardon!.

Isn't she the one who was criticized for posting social media messages with spelling errors?

It's interesting that the article above says that the information was in files from the Durham investigation. So, why didn't Durham make these charges? Was he really just 'another deep state stooge'?

I'm pretty sure that driving the smaller shops out of business is the actual intent of the bill!

Let's take a good look at those predictions: 1. In 1960 all oil was pumped in temperate or desert areas, there was no fracking or offshore oil wells. If we look at oil production from on-shore non-arctic oil wells, production did peak in 1975 and has been going down since then. The increase in oil production has all come from offshore wells, arctic wells and fracking. 2. Was anyone actually saying that? 3. Acid rain in Europe and N. America (the world's biggest crop producing areas) has been greatly reduced due to the retiring of coal-fired plants and the shift to cleaner-burning natural gas. 4. In the late 1980's CFCs were banned. Since then the ozone layer depletion has stopped and it has actually begun to repair itself. 5. The amount of sea ice in the Arctic has declined to the point were major shipping companies are starting to use the sea routes that go north of Canada & Russia. Routes that would have been unthinkable 3 years ago. These disasters have been avoided or put off because of laws passed due to 'woke climate alarmism', or technological advancements by oil or shipping companies. If we had simple ignored them, the world would be much worse off than it is today.

I really don't think that they will move the capital, and even if they do, there are many businesses based in Bangkok that could not be easily moved. They seem to be implementing the Dutch solution. There are already extensive dykes along the riverside they will almost certainly be extended around the city to create what is called a polder. The real question is what will happen to the outlying areas that will not be enclosed. Will they just have to live with seasonal flooding? Or will they become a de facto green zone around the empoldered capital?

Look at the top 5 Republican Conspiracies: Covid, Birther, Global Warming, Mueller, Soros Verses the top Democratic Conspiracies: Trump Symptoms, GOP Elections, Trump/Putin, Trump/Russian, Trump Covid. The Republicans are mostly Anti-Science or Anti-Reality. The Democrats are arguing about political conspiracies. One side may be paranoid, but the other side is not "reality based!". The conclusions of this research paper are a false equivalence.

Here is a quote from that research paper: researchers have identified numerous conspiracy theories that garner more support among the right than left, including those calling into question the scientific consensus on climate change (Miller et al., 2016), the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate (Pasek et al., 2014), COVID-19 (Miller, 2020), and the election of Joe Biden (Pennycook & Rand, 2021). Second, some researchers show that conservatives display higher levels of generalized conspiracy thinking than liberals (van der Linden et al., 2021); similarly, others show that “extreme” conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than “extreme” liberals (Imhoff et al., 2022; van Prooijen et al., 2015). Third, conspiracy theory beliefs are sometimes found to be associated with psychological tendencies more prevalent among conservatives, such as authoritarianism, need for cognitive closure, and threat perception (e.g., Dyrendal et al., 2021). Finally, several studies find evidence that those on the right are more likely than the left to engage with fake news and misinformation online (Garrett & Bond, 2021; Grinberg et al., 2019; Guess et al., 2019). But the abstract then claims the exact opposite!