robeetle

You most certainly will not get a job as a teacher.

wow...that is sad news for me to hear.

I am wanting to move to Thailand. 16 years ago I got into trouble with the law, is this going to keep me from living/working/retiring in Thailand?

Thanks LB........I forgot to mention I have just returne home to the USA to begin getting my affairs in order to move to Thailand and get married, as I have a relationship of 3 yers with a wonderful lady there. After reading the teaching forum and retirement forum, I literally am seriously concerned that I will have a problem because of my past.

Can you elaborate more?....does the forum have a PM function for this?

Thanks so much....

I am wanting to move to Thailand. 16 years ago I got into trouble with the law, is this going to keep me from living/working/retiring in Thailand?

Simple question......If I have a felony on my record from 16 years ago, am I going to be disqualified from working anywhere in Thailand?

Thanks for your replies, am home now and reading up. This is not going to be easy.

I have 2 simple questions that I could use some help with.

My girlfriend in BKK can speak some english but cannot read it very well, so i was wondering if there were any of you out there that could write in Thai so she could be able to understand answers to some questions regarding a USA visit visa and the subsequent requirements.

I fly back to the states tomorrow and thought I could possibly get some help here.

Also, does anyone know the requirements ond both ends (hers and Mine) that we need to go through to obtain a visa for her, and I know this has been gone over here before many times, and i appologize for asking a redundant question.

Any help would, be greatly appreciated.

"rescueing" someone from what they do is the first mistake you can make.

IF this person is involved in something you need to rescue them from, then their sensibilities will lie with money first.

Secondly, Love needs to happen on its own, it cannot be forced, contrived, imagined, or conjured up in some magic spell.

The universe will provide you with a true partner if you are in harmony for it.

Hi everyone....I searched all the topics before posting and could not find one on this subject.

But, I know there is a list of requirements to get this done and no guarantees.

Can someone please tell me what we need to do?

Thanks.

I just spoke to my g/f in bkk. She told me of a job offer that could be possible to work in the USA.

Here it is. She needs to take a Thai foot massage course, then fork over 50,000 baht, and also have a certificate of marriage. The lady said that she could arrange for her to be married.....

You need to find out where the scam originated - the "lady" or your "future intended".

"The Lady" is the one that mentioned it to her. This woman obviously is very savvy and used that to try and convince my gal to fork over her money. Fortunately all here helped her make the correct choice.

I wish she could be investigated , she is Thai I know that much.

10 million red flags. That is what I told her straight up, but she is desperate for change, and I'm in the states until next year. So, as I said before "too good to be true" usually is.

This morning i talked with her again and she beleives everone thank Gawd.

Hey everyone, thanks, as I am going to forward this to her, so your comments may save her a lot of grief. My sister and I both live in The San Diego area and we felt scam all the way here.

And the more comments the better.

I think you know the answer, not to mention the fraud implications. Could even be a front for forced prostitution.

That is what I emailed back to her, it happens all too often here.

I just spoke to my g/f in bkk. She told me of a job offer that could be possible to work in the USA.

Here it is. She needs to take a Thai foot massage course, then fork over 50,000 baht, and also have a certificate of marriage. The lady said that she could arrange for her to be married to some guy . We were to be married next year.

Then after all the paperwork is done, she comes to America and works in hospitals doing foot massages.

All food, and housing is supposedly paid for, plus she makes $50 per hour. Right now the economy in america is in the dumper, jobs are being LOST at record levels with no end in sight.

This woman that told her about this she has known less than a month. She also knows that my g/f just sold her beauty shop for guess what?...$50,000 baht......

So does anybody know of this being legit, OR, is a rat at work?

Once Again thanks or all your help, and I suppose since I haven't been around the site very much I should have searched the forums better.

The question in the OP is a valid one. I only know that gas at the pump in Venezuela today is 12 cents a gallon. I also know that in 2003 there was a total of $16 billion in oil futures. Today there is $260 billion in oil futures. The increase seems to be large investors such as pension funds.

12 cents a gallon?...Im driving down there just to fill up.

Thanks you guys for the knowledge, but Im pretty bummed.

Now I don't have any hope to bring her here.

Wow...I can't beleive it ...OK actually after the 2004 election I can beleive it.

Crap..The USA sucks....I don't know why people want to come here.

It was dotcom who provided the missing link for me. I thought oil companies had possession of the crude they extract from pump to refinery to market. I didn't realize that they both sell and buy crude on the open market. This explains how speculators are able to drive the price up beyond what one would expect based solely on supply and demand. They fact that they can buy on a small margin and do not take possession of the commodity enables them to leverage big profits.

I understand your frustration, robeetle. I know we're being ripped-off. I just wanted a better understanding of just how it happens....

Its cool bro..here in the states, there are other mitigating factors involved..One is that all the "mom and pop" refineries were bought up on the west coast by Exxon, Texaco and several others, and rather than refurbish them and make them bigger/viable refineries, they CLOSED them...

This means a longer route from crude to gasoline and other petroleum products. Usually the west coast has benefitted from those smaller refineries and it was competion, Now, the big companies know they can just gouge away at our paychecks.

The links that you gave me blame the high price of oil exclusively on supply and demand. Neither link even contains the word "speculator". I'm trying to understand why some oil analysts, the major oil companies and the oil producing nations all blame the high price on speculators, completely contrary to the arguments contained in the references you so kindly provided.

If, based on supply and demand, the price of crude should be about $60 a barrel, where does the other $60 or $70 come from?

If speculation in the oil futures market has nothing to do with the high prices, then why do so many people make the counter assertion that it does?

as I said before, what is a "speculator"...it does not matter dude. We are at the mercy of these privately owned companies, and that is a better question that what is a speculator.

WHY isn't oil a world commodity since the entire world NEEDS it with the way our fore-fathers set up the current energy systems.

Maybe my question wasn't clear. Both the oil companies and the oil producing nations have blamed speculators for the high price of oil. One analyst on CNN the other day said that the actual cost of producing a barrel of crude was around $50. He also blamed speculators, as opposed to supply and demand, for the high price.

My question is this: when it appears that oil companies control the process from drilling right through to retail sales, how can speculators drive the price up?

I understand that there has been a huge increase in demand, but everything I read indicates that demand alone does not account for the high price of crude. Nothing I've read explains how speculators can manage to push up the price when they don't seem to be a major part of the supply chain.

What the heck is a "speculator"......The links I provided tell you all you need to know. There are no more big oil fields. consumption IS the major contributor to higher prices. And since we are running out, what do you expect?

OK ...Im a speculator, I paid 25 cents a gallon as a senior in high school, now I pay $5.00 for the same product, I speculate an economic downturn of EPIC proportions. I also Speculate that since Oil is a privately owned business that GREED is a Speculator. How in the world is Oil allowed to be privately owned when the entire world bases their energy from it?

Ummm ....My girlfriend knows I don't have a pot to piss in, she also knows I posess a heart she can't find anywhere.

Her parents a poor farmers in the Fang area. All of them accepted me, an Irish American that can only say sawadee khrup, as their own.

My lady is a very beautiful woman who could get anyone she wants.

She chose me.

So, they are out there, you just need to pull the weeds.

Research "peak oil" http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ and know that here in the USA , people feel the need to drive around in S.U.V's and Hummers. heres another link that explains more http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3726

Also, countries with booming economies such as China and Japan are really starting to catch up with my whobegone country in consuption.

In America, jobs are dropping at a record rate, unemployment is huge, prices for everything are at unprecedented levels, and there is no end in sight.

These <deleted> beaurocrats have sat on their hands for over 30 years doing NOTHING for alternative fuel sources.

With 75% of the world being water and land such a high premium because people refuse to tie their Johnsons in a knot, why dont they set up floating solar panels, it makes total sense and there are no more dinosaurs to make any new oil as far as I can see.

After looking thru those sites, I still can't find the "type B" tourist visa forms that arent $50 to download.

Im not doing it, it sounds like it would cost a fortune to just have her over for a visit. I HATE the USA and fuc_king George bush

Thailand dangerous ? Try walking around the many areas of Los Angeles after dark where several hundred thousand hard core gang members now reside and you will learn what danger is all about. For a big city, I think that Bangkok is especially safe compared with big cities here in the US. There is always going to be a very slight element of danger everywhere but the thing that seems to be most dangerous for male farangs visiting Thailand and causes them the most problems and hardships is their sometimes poor choice in women and the indiscriminate use of their ATM cards.

I live 35 miles North Of san Diego and I can tell you this is such a true statement. And dudes getting all drunked up and going to sex shows in Bkk are still way safer than sober ones just going to the store in L.A.

Last night looking at the full moon and playing my guitar in Oceanside California.

In Feb. I was in Krabi and marvelling at the full moon over the river while walking down that awesome boardwalk there. That place kicks booty.