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To be fair to the inept anti-Trump European media, perhaps these unreported Islamic terrorist attacks were so clandestine that no one has yet detected them.

On 11/15/2016 at 0:41 PM, jaidam said:

Mayor Giuliani was a real inspiration after the 9/11 attacks. He kept his cool and IMO prevented the whole of NYC running around like headless chickens. A dose of his steady rational logic is exactly what is needed for secretary of state. Just look at the disaster Kerry caused by blatting around the middle east arming the enemies of the west, causing more bloodshed than Atilla the Hun. 

 This is more good news from President-elect Trumps team.

I lived in NYC and worked in the financial district at the time. He wasn't horrible, nor was he anything special. Mostly he was concerned with enforcing archaic cabaret license laws LOL. Now he's really old and has a few screws loose. I could see him in a domestic cabinet role (like Homeland Security) but Secretary of State seems a poor fit.

28 minutes ago, chilli42 said:

"Have to pay their own way ..."

 

How naive of me.  I thought the purpose of  US military might was to secure US global business interests and project their political agenda when and as they see fit.  I now stand corrected, they are not providing support to their allies out of self interest. They have been protecting their allies for free just because they are nice.  In that case, paying for US protection seems like a real bargain.

Yeah, this take is complete dumbing down of foreign policy. No concept of mutual benefit and instead a short-sighted profit-via-extortion approach. I doubt that Trump will really stick to this, though.

I voted "No," although I'm not sure there's a right or wrong person. Of the two, Clinton is probably better.

But, yeah, Dictator is over-the-top. He has a Republican Congress so he might get more of what he wants, but that's not the same as a Dictatorship.

A Clinton Presidency would have been a known entity. I have no idea what Trump really will do. Domestically, I expect a generic Republican agenda with a few exceptions (e.g., anti-free trade).

For foreign policy, Clinton would likely have been better for here in SE Asia, but an escalation of wars in the Middle East... too bad we'll never know what country her people would try to destabilize next. I don't have much faith in Trumps foreign policy, either, and I expect an awful cabinet.

In any event, the Democrats are to blame. When all you have to offer is identity politics, you stand to alienate potential voters who don't fit your preferred identity. I'm against racism and bigotry. Most people are. But you also need to do things that might improve people's lives. But a message of vote for me or you're a bigot isn't enough to motivate enough people to vote for you. The Democrats use identity politics as a smokescreen to distract from their corporatist policies and, this time, it bit them in the *ss.
Yes, Clinton is better with policy but most people outside of DC don't care about those details... Dems ignored rural white people because they felt that demographics meant they would win without them. Those people voted for Trump because they think their lives will be better with President who seems to be interest in things that actually effect them. Better luck next time.

MiKT and manarak are making logical arguments about laws and the legal system.

IMHO the arguments against their posts are primarily emotional.

Laws are non-emotional and exist in large part to prevent the type of emotionally-based vigilante justice some posters are advocating.

11 minutes ago, robblok said:

So that just leaves the South and redshirts.. I guess your praying its not your beloved redshirts because defending them then would be real hard. 

 

For me I just use ocams razor to go for the two likely suspects. Just like you used it ocam's razor before in a post however now you are wringing in all kind of positions to make this look like false flag. Its just not probable. 

 

I have not made my mind up who of the two have done so and won't until i get more information. 

No, those aren't the only 2 possibilities.

The Red Shirts aren't even the only possibility when the current government refers to internal politics. The military isn't a single political entity, either; there are factions and not all have the same goals as the current government.

I haven't been following the news lately.

Who's expected to be the next Prime Minister? "Ao" or "Mai Ao?"

Sorry, I just noticed this now.

TrueSports is airing a 30 minute stage highlight show. I think air time varies each day: http://truevisionsgroup.truecorp.co.th/tvguide?ln=en

For live coverage, you would need a satellite provider with Eurosport Asia or another non-Thai network that airs it live.

Edit: I watch via Eurosport from a cycling-specific private torrent site. You can PM me if you would like an invite.

Uncle Ho was the perfect symbol of valiant who prevail over the strong.

Today Vietnam is the small free and independent for having resist to his invaders:

- Japanese

- Chinese

- French

- US like always...

Well done Thailand in order to sublimate this model.

and turned into a wonderful democracy... oh wait...

Well, how many "wonderful democracies" do we have in SE Asia?

Anyhow, about comments related to why has Thailand forgotten abouut past regional power struggles... why shouldn't they? They're irrelevant now since the ASEAN nations realized that it's better to cooperate economically than to fight endless stupid wars.

It's no different than asking why would France and Germany (and multiple other European nations) get along now after fighting each other for centuries.

^ I see.... so all groups fighting in Syria are evil and fighting for their own self-interests except the Free Syrian Army, which is a benevolent group fighting for the goodness of all.

This type of great analysis is partly why we have messes like Syria in the first place.

Huh? The title indicates that the article is about life under Daesh in Al Shaddadi but like 66% of the article has nothing to do with that.

Anyhow, Syria's problem has nothing to do with strong or weak leadership. Stop looking at the world so simply... individual leaders don't matter that much.

Syria's problems do have to do with the nation being relatively small which puts it in the middle of power struggles between larger nations in the region.

Libya? The Qaddafi regime would have won the civil war easily if NATO didn't support the rebels with air power.

Individual leaders make all the difference. Size isn't the biggest factor. Jordan is a great example. Qaddafi had lost before Nato stepped in...which they did to try and stop the bloodshed.

LOL at stop the bloodshed! The civil war in Libya still hasn't been resolved over 4 years later. You do-gooder interventionists make the world a much worse place, even for the people you are supposedly helping.

@ AGLV0121... Interesting you mention Mandela. He would never been successful without funding from the Good Colonel Qaddafi.

7 Eleven is no longer a store of convenience, its a store of inconvenience what with hordes of people paying their bills at the counter causing long queues, now we can expect flocks of illiterate Burmese to supplement those queues. I will take my business elsewhere.

Where are these 7 Elevens that are constantly backed up with people paying bills? I think paying bills there is convenient.

There are like 15 trillion 7 Elevens in the country. Do you really think all migrant workers will go to the same one at the same time?

If anything, I would think this is good news for a segment of foreigners living here as it will reduce the workload at the Department of Labor, meaning shorter waits at there.

And why does it matter whether or not the migrant workers can read? I'd bet that the vast majority of TV posters cannot read Thai, which would make them... illiterate.

Huh? The title indicates that the article is about life under Daesh in Al Shaddadi but like 66% of the article has nothing to do with that.

Anyhow, Syria's problem has nothing to do with strong or weak leadership. Stop looking at the world so simply... individual leaders don't matter that much.

Syria's problems do have to do with the nation being relatively small which puts it in the middle of power struggles between larger nations in the region.

Libya? The Qaddafi regime would have won the civil war easily if NATO didn't support the rebels with air power.

More and more non-white, non-Nazi, non-KKK, non-racist Americans are backing Trump...

"Charles Evers, the 93-year-old brother of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers, explains his support for Donald Trump for president."

I have nothing against Trump... he's funny. But this guy's 93 years old.

It's a national tragedy that people over the age of 65 get to vote. Why should they have a say in the nation's future when they're just going to die soon anyhow?

This is bullshit propaganda. I live in Germany and sausages are banned NOWHERE, not even at schools. Just a headline to get the brown anger growing again.

Whats more likely, that a publication with a story like this has made the entire thing up, "bullshit propaganda," or that some anonymous poster, unable to counter facts projects some sophomoric ad hominen attack to misdirect, dissesmble?

Even as an exercise in economy of thought its easier to just quickly glance the OP versus the above rebuttal and judge: "true," and move on, rejecting the above protest as the real BS!

After all, the OP fits into a now daily narrative pouring out of the West. Its not just this story, is it? This is happening in many places now.

It must be true. In a Google search for "pork banned germany," the second result is this thread LOL

Apart from being a "big girl" , in my opinion Thai girls dying their hair to that sort of colour is ? Well unflattering. It was the hair that caught my attention closely followed by the damage the smash caused . And as for the poor taxi driver, who was not at fault, how the hell do you think he felt being confronted with sight?. Drugs/alcohol involved ?

I find this post completely offensive. The problem here is that she is disgustingly obese and you try to obviscate the issue with a diatribe about hair color?

No one would care about the hair color if she was attractively slim.

I find it amusing that people have such a negative attitude towards Trump as president.

I'd much prefer a performance artist over an Alzhy, thank you. And, please remember that the iconic Democrat of the 20th century was a cripple.

If Nancy were alive today, I'd hope that she'd "Just Say Yes" to Dr. Trump.

Edit: Oops, I forgot...RIP

Yes for performance art. Not for president. He's punking us and nobody knows what he's really about. Probably even himself.

We'll just have to agree to disagree then. IMHO the punking is what makes him most charming. No more facade of supposedly meaning what one says. Everything is a lie, or maybe not.

That's why I might just vote for him... although more nonsense like arjunadawn's post could make me reconsider.

The Sunni Muslim dominated council - representing Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain,Kuwait, Oman and Qatar - already imposed sanctions on the Shi’ite Muslim group in 2013.

Any deflection from the real cancer in the Middle East.

+1... and, as things stand now, Hezbollah serves the necessary purpose of providing some balance and preventing the Saudi-aligned nations from dominating the region.

At least Hezbollah has shown that they can function within a multi-party and multi-religious political system... how does anyone think that al-Nusra, for example, would compare?

That's a very liberal use of "function" there.

Dragging the whole country into armed conflicts, assassinating political rivals, acting independently on foreign policy issues, involvement in drug trade.

What's not to like?

Lebanon is a politically complicated nation. Sometimes Hezbollah coordinates actions with the Lebanese military, sometimes they do other things. I see nothing wrong with that.

Lebanon would be in the middle Iran vs. Saudi-aligned power struggle, with or without Hezbollah. And if wasn't for Hezbollah, southern Lebanon would likely still be occupied by Israel.

The Sunni Muslim dominated council - representing Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain,Kuwait, Oman and Qatar - already imposed sanctions on the Shi’ite Muslim group in 2013.

Well, they would say that wouldn't they. All of em corrupt aristocratic dictatorships/pseudo democracies, and budding friends of Israel. I take their comments with a pinch of salt.

Of course it's all part of the Sunni Shia proxy war. With the Israeli apologists climbing on the bandwagon here when it suits their purposes.

Any deflection from the real cancer in the Middle East.

+1... and, as things stand now, Hezbollah serves the necessary purpose of providing some balance and preventing the Saudi-aligned nations from dominating the region.

At least Hezbollah has shown that they can function within a multi-party and multi-religious political system... how does anyone think that al-Nusra, for example, would compare?

LOL at all the fear-mongering and paranoia. Normally, I wouldn't vote for Trump and would sit this election out. But I'm tempted to just by the over-reaction by so many people.

Given his past statements, Trump is more moderate than any of the other Republicans and likely not much different on domestic issues than centrist Clinton. And given Clinton's history of hawkish-ness, I'd guess less likely to start needless wars than Clinton.

Trump is performance artist who serves the purpose of subtly exposing the awfulness of the current political elites.

Nothing he says can be taken at face value, but that's OK because everyone knows it - or, at least they should. With Clinton, nothing can be taken at face value but it's more problematic because so many people do believe her.

A wall on the Mexican border? Banning all Muslims? Those things aren't going to happen, Trump says them just for the absurdity value and, for this, he should be applauded.

Nothing wrong with a children owning a gun, as long as they learn to shoot their wads responsibly. You don't want a bunch of adult first-time gun owners any more than you want adults who can't read.

However, IMHO - and I might be in the minority here - a school cafeteria is not an appropriate place for gunplay. Luckily, in this incident, no one got hurt except for a few students... but what will happen next time?

Why wouldn't anyone defend the Dirty Brits? The seem like good honest folk when they aren't up to shenanigans.

This line of reasoning is like arguing the difference between an aardvark and an anteater. In the age of Zika Virus, the mosquitoes are making a mockery of us all... so why focus on the ants?

But, of course, this thread is about smelly food.

Try LA, Chicago, New York. Bangkok is nothing. Thailand has nothing on gang land America. My biggest fear in Thailand is getting hit by a tuk tuk.

Gang land New York LOL! Are you posting from the 19th Century?

Sorry. Would you rather me use other slang. "The hood", or is that to 80s for you? What about, "the other side of the tracks?". Maybe that is to metephorical. Thai visa trolls kill me. Sometimes I read through comments on this sight just to get a laugh at how rediculously negative some of you people are. No where on the internet can you see trolling as refined and consistent as it is here.

If anyone thinks Thailand is dangerous, then I challenge you to walk through some Neighbourhoods in Chicago or Oakland California. There are places here where to hear a gunshot a day Is not surprising. The difference is that you don't have a bunch of whining expats with money complaining on the Internet all day.

Grantid our gang members and inner city thugs actually know how to drive and the police do try to knock em back a bit, but that is quickly changing now that political correctness can land an officer in prison if the perp happens to have a heart attack while being tackled.

Huh? I don't care what terminology you use. I'm interested to know what neighborhoods in New York are dangerous or, if you prefer, "gang land."

When I lived there, I didn't see anything that fits that characterization. That's why I think it's funny. You apparently know nothing about the city and are just making up its dangerousity level.

Try LA, Chicago, New York. Bangkok is nothing. Thailand has nothing on gang land America. My biggest fear in Thailand is getting hit by a tuk tuk.

Gang land New York LOL! Are you posting from the 19th Century?