
samran
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4 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:He was back in 2008 with Obama. They campaigned on alot of the same issues that the right campaigns on today that gets them called racist white nationalists. The right has held firm on most of their core issues - unlike the left, which keeps sliding further and further off the charts towards communism.
You clearly only started following politics relatively recently if the above is your opinion.
Yes that extreme left socialist - what was his name - who did an amnesty back in the 1980s.
Clearly the sky fell in.
What was his name, oh yeah. Reagan.
The Republican Party is a sad shell of its former self who’s only guiding policy light is ‘how big a c^nt can we be to people?’
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As the legendary Sgt Schultz would say: I Know Nooothing!
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9 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:Just stating some inconvenient facts. I'll leave to you to find relief in wondering whether I am defensive versus simply observing actual facts.
No wondering about your posts there mate. They are about as partisan and logic defying in support of the big fella as one can get.
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16 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:Why do you think a president exercising his prerogative is in conflict with the two issues you posted about?
My my, awfully defensive aren’t we? If he’s got nothing to hide, why the conflicting stories?
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44 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:Yes. From the initial appointment of senior officers in the Justice Department by one political party to their removal by their rival party.
Nothing, nothing at all, to do with justice.
5 months before an election? Why? Thanks
Given the US system it’s more understandable you do these things at the start of a term. Getting your own people has always been the way.
It’s the timing which produces a stench typically found in this part of the world.
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51 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:Welcome to the swamp.
Swamps are complex ecosystems important for the environment and water quality.
This is a sewer.
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22 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:Seems weird to replace a U.S. Attorney five months before an election, with someone with zero litigation experience?
I think that’s the whole point! Litigations don’t go very well after that...
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Wow, this is third world autocrat stuff.
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14 hours ago, kokesaat said:
I appreciate all the feedback. I may explore having someone go through my personal papers to find my wife's old passport and sent it to the US. I have since found out that you have to present yourself in person at one of the embassies/consulates to have a new passport issued.
Just to clarify a few things.....my wife is Thai (when she's in Thailand), with a Thai ID card and housepaper. But over the 23 years we've lived in Thailand, she's always traveled back and forth with her American passport. Yes, she goes through the rubber stamp process to get an annual extension......as we both do our extensions at the same time, the immigration officer is only concerned with my finances. For a variety of reasons (coups, unrest, etc) we've both felt more comfortable with her being in Thailand on a US passport. Obviously, we didn't see Covid happening, but it's a lesson learned.
No need to dig through old documents, she can get a new passport with her ID card. it is an extremely easy process. If they ask for her old passport, just report it lost.
As for being in Thailand on a US passport, given she still is a Thai citizen (despite entering on the US passport) she won't be offered any consular assistance, so it makes little difference from that perspective.
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Sloppiness from this President? Who'd have thunk it?
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1 hour ago, KhaoYai said:
If you don't get any joy with a new passport from the Thai Embassy, as far as I know you'll be fine with her old one if you can get someone to send it to you. She is a Thai citizen and her passport establishes that. I've seen several accounts where Thai citizens have been allowed to enter Thailand on an expired passport.
I’ve entered Thailand on an expired passport a couple of times.
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4 hours ago, JonnyF said:
Oh really?
I don't think some of the loony liberals would have issues with the UK doing great work on C-19, I know it. They're so guilt ridden and hateful towards their own country that they are terrified it could lead to national pride. ????.
Don't believe me?
Oh dear, I have to give you that one. A level of wokeness which even makes me shudder.
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24 minutes ago, DoctorG said:Boris is eager to get tim tams from Australia, and who can blame him?
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I certainly can’t.
Giving up free and unfettered access to a market of 400m people and 20 trillion in GDP for some tim tams. We’ll even throw in the Vegemite for nothing!
While Boris huffs and puffs about fishing rights, the welsh farmers are frozen like deers in headlights about the thrown under that green and gold lorry filled with more efficiently grown Australian beef and lamb.
Bring. It. On!
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6 hours ago, CGW said:
???? What am I missing? to me it makes perfect sense to use PTT rather than imported gas!
If the "gas" was imported the level of corruption would doubtless be higher than it currently is, PTT is an excellent well run company, ranking about 80 on in the fortune 500 companies, though sure many wont want to recognise this fact. ????
Your missing plenty. EGAT importing gas allows for competition. PTT have been resisting this for about a decade.
As for their being no corruption at PTT...555
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8 hours ago, Moonfire said:
If you are Thai, you need to leave Thailand on a Thai passport (when you say you left it in Thailand is the first red flag about your post). Reason when your wife returns to Thailand she would enter on the same Thai passport she exited with, which will also have her departure card with it.
A Thai entering the Kingdom on a US passport, means she will have to follow the immigration rules that apply to the US passport and this is where the problems start.
It is a must leave on a Thai passport from Thailand, enter the US on the US passport, exit the US on the US passport, re-enter Thailand on the Thai passport that was used to exit Thailand at the start.
You want the Thai embassy to issue you a new Thai passport when you have NO exit stamp or departure card from the Thai passport you used to leave Thailand at the beginning.
Yes, you have a issue!
No she won’t. The majority of this post is just straight out wrong. Departure and arrival cards have been done away with, not that it ever mattered. The embassy will issue her with a Thai passport given she is thai.
She’ll have no issue reentering Thailand on a blank unused passport. It happens all the time.
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2 hours ago, JonnyF said:The UK leading the way again. When the going gets tough it's easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.
No doubt the Brit haters and the self loathing, hand wringing UK liberals will be along shortly to try and pour cold water on this but it's great news for everyone around the world. Well done to the UK led team ????.
You’d have to have a pretty craven mind to think that anyone would have issues for this work and it’s outcome just because of their nationality....
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She can just get a new Thai passport via the embassy in DC or the nearest consulate authorized to issue them. All she needs is her ID card. A certificate of identity would also be allowable if they are issuing them.
Once issued, she can travel to Thailand, but under current arrangements, will need to arrange this with the embassy and do the mandatory 14 day quarantine.
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6 hours ago, holy cow cm said:
Wow. A state owned by majority share corporation supplying a Stated owned Authority. All in the family.
Its a dysfunctional family. The idea they even trying to play nice together is a big achievement. Of course, EGAT should simply be able to procure its own, and is allowed to these days by law to import it (from memory!), but the landmines in Thai politics means that PTT has won the day for now in keeping a tight hold of the market.
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7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:TWO NEW CASES caused by GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE. Now tell me why I should congratulate the government, considering what a bad job they have done letting it start again after we all suffered to get rid of it?
You're a tough audience.
You were critical of them getting it basically erradiated - your solution of keeping the economy more open would have kept the virus circulating. Now that there are two cases, its also unacceptable.
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1 hour ago, vermin on arrival said:
Only if they keep their borders shut to high rick countries until a treatment or vaccine emerges. If you are lucky it's fast. If not, since there will be no herd immunity developing, NZ may be in a lot of trouble (there are number of epidemiologists who believe this policy is a mistake, but their voices are being stifled). For the moment, it is a great success story and may bear out to be long term. I do hope that they create travel bubbles with other successful nations in containing the virus.
Its uncharted territory, but if you can avoid the importation of it, then that's one less source to worry about.
I'm actually skeptical we will be getting a vaccine anytime soon. Nor for a magic bullet pill. What I suspect will happen will be some sort of combo therapy to blunt the worst effects for it. Reading in between the lines, that's whats coming first. Hopefully that and travel bubbles will be the best home for a return to some medium term normalcy.
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The English getting their hard brexit early and still managing to find a way to whinge about it...
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China pushing boundaries to see who pushes back. Expect more of this behaviour. Much of it will go unpunished.
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19 minutes ago, Loiner said:Right on cue, as predicted. Bit short on venom though - has it been a long day for you?
I'll bet that more Aussies are attracted to him though. They're not usually slow to call a spade a spade, although many of the younger and more stupid ones have been brainwashed into submission.I’m more regular than your bladder these days I’m guessing.
Nothing really to be venomous about.
If you read my previous post, we’ve had charlatans like him forever and a day. They have their appeal to the ‘woe is me - let’s blame the immigrants for my own failings’ mob, but for the rest of us they are a humorous diversion. Im not too worried about them.
As said, he’s auditioning hard to get the attention of old Rupert. The conservative journalists scratch each other’s eyes out for a chance to be Ruperts poodle. It’s fun to watch.
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4 minutes ago, johnpetersen said:Because otherwise doctors might be reluctant to give it to their patients? Because doctors are more likely to listen to Trump than to Anthony Fauci? Or to the Surgeon General? I knew Trump was chief executive of the USA. I didn't know that he was also Chief Medical Officer.
Hey, who needs professional medical advice when you have a self proclaimed stable genius guiding everyone?
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Kho Tao - self catering/restaurants
in Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao
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Hi all - so I’ve gotten a decent deal down there early next month and we’ll be staying in a place which allows for self catering.
Im just wondering what the availability down there is for western basics (decent bread, breakfast cereals, meat, sausages, fresh salad). No huge loss if they aren’t available but kind of wondering if they are.
Im assuming fresh fish and other seafood would be widely available.
Also any idea on if restaurants are opening - especially for take away etc.