billd766

NO. Make Prayuth and all his extended family eat it for two meals a day every day until it is all gone. After all it happened on his watch. He promised many things as I remember. Stopping corruption. Overhauling the police, the military and the civil service. Returning happiness to the Thai people. I wonder how that lot turned out in the end.

Khao San road, where else?

Vorsprung durch technik.

Yet he was elected by the Thai people, not just once but twice, and is the only PM to have legally have completed a full term as PM of Thailand. Meanwhile the generals who made 3 successful military coups are walking around free as birds without even a smack on the wrist as a punishment. What does that say about the weakness of the Thai Political System?

The only problem with a second loan. (if he can get one), is that it is likely to be expensive and will still have to be repaid. If anything he will be worse off than he is now.

I was referring to the members of the electoral college. However, IMHO nothing is enshrined for ever, or there would be no amendments to the constitution, and there are many.

But it is the choice of the US public who will become POTUS, with some help (or not) from the electoral college). I wonder who elects the members of the electoral college. They seem somewhat un-necessary nowadays.

Trolls are nothing but a PITA.

If 10 million Thais didn't stand up and protest at every military coup, where will they find 10 million because a bunch of students are unhappy. I can understand the students protesting about other students who were jailed by the previous government, but threatening "action" if Thaksin is not put in jail seems a waste to me.

And do you truly think he will be able to pull the said rabbit out of the hat in 6 days? It will be interesting to see if he can. The bond companies as thee don't want to be left with an unpaid and unfulfilled bond, No 'friends' anywhere will 'lend' him any money as they also won't see it repaid. He can try to sell some of his properties, but as the assessors don't work for him, the sales will be at rock bottom prices anyway, I very much doubt if even his MAGA supporters can came up with that much in 6 more days. Despite all of his boasts it doesn't look as though he has that much money laying around doing nothing. Why don't YOU start a Go Fund me for Trump as you always seem to defend him. I have an odd 25 satang he can have if he is really desperate and is willing to pay all the charges up front.

What a wonderful response. Thank you for brightening my day and giving me a good laugh.

And what will you do if you find that reason?

Why not just remove yours instead. It has no relevance to the topic anyway.

I do and I have made provision for my current Thai wife to get 50% of my pensions for her life as well. I am 79, she is 58 and we have been married for 24 years next month. I never had that much hair to start with and what is left is fading from grey to white. Her long black hair is now shorter and grey. However se is still the same woman I met 30 years ago and married 24 years ago.

So what, He spent his time in court. The judge found him guilty and imposed the fine, the same as any body else. He pays the fine exactly as anybody else would. If he wants to appeal he either puts up the fine, or a bond to that amount as anybody else would have to. Why should he be treated any differently? That no bond company is willing to risk that makes commercial sense, as they think the risk of him defaulting is too high. That none of his 'friends' or family will put up that amount shows the same thing.. That he cannot put up that amount in cash shows that he lied about his finances. That his MAGA crew can't or won't stump up that much shows that perhaps his base is neither as large, as strong or as rich as he wants the world to believe.

Did Trump himself ask for a bench trial and NOT a jury trial? If so then he brought it on himself. About 2,910,000 results (0.32 seconds) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trial-no-jury-fraud-new-york-judge-arthur-engoron/ https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-bench-trial-new-york-fraud-rcna118455 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-no-jury-bench-trial-ny-fraud-case-paperwork-2023-10 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-civil-fraud-trial-jury-b2423006.html Lots more links where they came from.

Why would the court need to steal ANY properties? He was accused, had his days in court. judged my a jury of his peers who who on the evidence decided that he was guilty as charged. He stood before the judge as any other person would do, and the pronounced sentence. Now if he is as rich as he pretends to be, all he has to do is put up the money or post a bond for the amount. That no company will put up the bond as their assessors don't believe that he has enough funds available, is Trump's problem. From what I can gather, he can sell his properties in NY, provided that they are un-encumbered by loans, mortgages, etc, raise the funds that way. pay the fines and that will be OK. However if/when the properties are sold, they may not reach the price that Trump thinks they are worth as the assessors will not be working for him. but for the courts and what they think the properties will be worth on the open market.

Really? And where do you live? I have lived in rural Kamphaeng Phet next to the Mae Wong national park for 20 years, and I have logged the weather reports for most of that time, but I lost all my records before 2016 when my pc crashed and died. How long have you been keeping records? 4 years ago the drought at this time of the year was so bad three water tanker/fire trucks were out 6 days a week delivering water to outlying villages that had none. Fortunately our group of villages got connected to their main supply about 3 years ago but even now the main water supply is shut off during daylight hours. You can walk across the klong over the road in a lot of places at the moment, and not get your feet wet. In 2011. the klong was 25 metres wide in places and nearly 4 metres deep at the bridge. Also in 2011 the klong in the big village was about 250 metres wide and flooded the village crossroads for about 100 or more metres each way.

I hope so. I have 2 x 3,000 litre storage tanks for fresh rain water. One is just about empty. and the other is down to about 1,000 litres. The good thing is that I managed to replace all the water pipes and taps in the cooler dry season. Now all we need is a couple of weeks of good rain to wash the roof and fill the tanks. The bad thing is when it rains the blasted scrub grass grows like crazy, and at 79 it gets harder to cut down every year.

Very few Thais waste water in the rural countryside. They know how precious it is.

We had 38.2mm in November and December combined. In the whole of 2023 we had 740.2 mm. How about you. Yet this stupid government and TAT next month want to waste billions of litres of water, literally down the drain for an extended Songkran.

Similarities. None.

IMHO the only way that this war and genocide will end and the hostages released, will be when the Israeli people remove Netanyahu from power and proscribe the Likud party as a terrorist organisation. The were proscribed in the 1940s once before for terrorism. It would be down to the Israeli people to do it legally through an election, though the Israeli allies and weapons suppliers would have to do their part, as would the banks and financiers.

Out here in rural Kamphaeng Phet by the Mae Wong national park, we have only had 13.1 mm of rain this year.

And were you even there at all?