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Look along the bottom. Some hav a lever to push and reset. Others, have to lift the cover and red reset button is pushed.

In this case a citizen Grand Jury decided there was enough evidence to warrant a trial. Next will be a citizen Trial Jury deciding guilt or innocence ... not a judge.

Reminds me of the Japanese saying I learned, "The nail that sticks up, gets hammered down".

Only thing I really miss, thinking of US 7-11s is the clean public bathrooms!

Agree but rather than calling it a "Shinawatra deal" I would call it a rebalancing deal after two separate coup d'etat removing the elected governments. I can only speculate but I am thinking part of the deal is the two Prime Ministers would be allowed to return and, those involved in the coups get immunity from prosecution.

Leaving out the terminology "filthy deal", I agree.

!3 years here in Chiang Mai. I have not studied the broader issue and so I can only relate my own experience having lived in L&H (Maejo), Condo and rental home at 118 & 121 area (Sansai), Phimuk 1 (Sansai Noi) and now Saraphi. Only real damage was observed in 2011 upon first retiring in July 2011. Those who were here will well remember August that year. Chiang Mai flooded with the Mae Ping going over its banks. High electric poles along 121 were brought down. L&H flooded, I had to go to a hotel for a couple of nights. Other than that, I have been pleased and a bit surprised after noting the electric wire "rats nests" throughout Thailand. Oh, my electric has gone off but my experience has been that it is restored in short order. It is, in my experience it is off, usually, the longest one hour. If the electric went off where I lived in the USA, it was serious and would last the better part of a day or longer. But then I lived on the fringe of "tornado alley". Ice storm in 2009 left most ofwestern Kentucky without electric the better part of two weeks.

Hope the guy push to hitting the ground brings charges and that both these guys are deported as persona non grata. Geez, I'm thinking a stomach punch would find one's forearm disappearing in the fat.

I have used the 65K baht transferred from abroad into my Bangkok bank Act. since retiring in Chiang Mai in 2011. As an American no longer able to use a statement from the Embassy. I have never been asked the source of my USA funds (retirement, SS, rent income, etc.).

The song “City of New Orleans”.

Sorry, Mike, I was responding with my perspective to the post not quoting. After reading the US tax treaty I do not think, and my tax filer here in Thailand confirms, currently at least, my income is not taxable by Thailand. But as the Zen Master said ... "we'll see" - credit for the line goes to the movie, "Charlie Wilson's War".

Not consistent with the Alabama Supreme Court ruling and now the Arizona Court ruling. Is a genetic flaw calling for a non-viable birth the subject of being a "disease"? I am not up on the various European nations individual abortion laws. I certainly would be focusing on whether their exceptions are in line with your thinking.

Appears to me that as my deductions, exemptions would affect sable income, Thailand might have some interest.

Sorry? What post did I quote?

Don't watch CNN so cannot comment on that rant. As far as the rest ... so far off base as to be irrelevant.

The topic? Fox News as a reputable source.

If I had the money, living here in Chiang Mai, I would certainly be vacating the polluted air at this time.

Many in the working middle class in western nations are being outpaced in their own countries and seeking retirement in lower cost countries. I am one of those "economic refugees".

Nope. Continuing with the sustainable $2200 USD transfer monthly and enjoying the 36+ baht exchange rate.

Agreed. Added compensation for having Thai Wife, have her sign in.

As to your last paragraph ... I am thankful for this attribute found in Thai society. Why? Because as a Western male having been raised with the "Puritan Ethic", I found, upon retiring that Thailand provided a large selection of cute girls quite willing to view me as quite the desirable fellow ... 3 long term "permanent" relationships in the USA previously, but here ... happy camper.

Ha! Yes, I have oft felt a slacker after reading here in reflecting a total lifetime count of 24. One half of those were/are wonderful Thai girls in my 13 years here (now retired from the chase ... quite happy with my Thai Wife).

Without any knowledge that this will be the case, I agree with you. Might be faulty reasoning but I think leaning on those supporting Thai families would not go over well with the Thai families. Would the Thai government want to threaten my Wife and Stepdaughter's wellbeing ... I don't think they will want to get her fighting mad.

Ah, no ... it is not. Readily available documents demonstrate the varied and many needed medically determined visions to be made. By the medical circumstances and the woman involved not by any mandatory, artificial calendar limit. More important is the question of "American citizen Rights" not subject to individual states. Sorry, I am a student of history ... soon states allowing slavery? Jim Crow /laws" segregation by race or sex? Let us regress to literacy tests for voting ... hmm, wait ... I might support this if applied equally to all ...

What is so bad about letting the woman and her medical advisers make a decision that is hers? The power over personal medical decisions, belongs to the individual not me ... nor you.