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The escort and abortion claims re Boebert remain unproven... But the other charges below involving Boebert are proven: Congressional candidate Lauren Boebert has a history of minor arrests, court no-shows Rifle Republican has been arrested and summonsed four times in the past decade August 27, 2020 "Congressional candidate Lauren Boebert — who often espouses a pro-police, law-and-order message on the campaign trail — has been arrested and summonsed at least four times over the past decade, records show. ... While she was being handcuffed for disorderly conduct, Boebert tried to twist away from police, according to deputies’ reports. She allegedly shouted that her arrest was unconstitutional, that “she had friends at Fox News and that the arrest would be national news.” https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/lauren-boebert-arrests-colorado-3rd-mitsch-bush/

Hypocrite!!! Please, let's not have an arch-right-wing Republican congresswoman sexualizing the environment of family friendly musicals!!! And according to The Advocate report above, out on a fondling date with a bar owner whose venue has previously hosted drag shows, which the congresswoman supposedly abhors. Hypocrite!

Lauren Boebert Caught Fondling Date’s Genitals During Family-Friendly Musical: Video "Newly released security camera footage appears to show Rep. Lauren Boebert, the far-right Republican congresswoman known for her strong stance against drag queens and transgender people, claiming their mere existence “sexualizes” spaces, engaging in inappropriate behavior during a family-friendly musical at a packed theater. ... In the video, Boebert's companion, identified by multiple news sources as 46-year-old Quinn Gallagher (a Democrat who owns a bar at which drag shows have occurred), is seen touching Boebert's chest during the show. Boebert, in response, appears to place her hand near his crotch and whispers something to him, Mediaite reports." https://www.advocate.com/politics/lauren-boebert

In this case, it seems like it's quite the family affair... the husband deputy Interior Ministry, his wife, the accused ex mayor of Nakhon Ubon Ratchathani, and the current mayor the wife of their son. "The current mayor of the Nakhon Ubon Ratchathani Municipality is the wife of Worasit Kantinan, a Pheu Thai MP candidate for Ubon Ratchathani and Kriang’s [the deputy Interior Minister's] son, Bangkok Post reported." The new government is hardly out of the gate, and the corruption cases are already piling up against a variety of figures, apart from the previously convicted heroin dealer/ politician earlier named to the Cabinet. "Another returnee is Thammanat Prompao, who had served as deputy agriculture minister despite being convicted and jailed in Australia in 1994 in connection with heroin smuggling. He is the new agriculture minister." https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thailands-new-government-takes-office-cabinet-members-oath-102924049 And now add to the list: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thai-education-ministers-appointment-in-question-over-red-bull-heir-scandal "The recent appointment of Education Minister, Police General Permpoon Chidchob, has been challenged by the Move Forward Party (MFP), following allegations of his involvement in aiding Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya, the heir to the Red Bull fortune, to evade prosecution."

A very good source for learning what Fire device users can do outside of the Amazon ecosystem is a UK based YouTube site called TechDoctorUK. The guy behind the site does an excellent job of posting easy to follow, step-by-step instruction tutorials to do all kinds of things with the Fire devices. https://www.youtube.com/@TechDoctorUK

So-called "jailbreaking" a Fire device is pretty much nothing more than just installing the "Downloader" app from the Fire device's built-in app store that is the vehicle you use to then download stuff from sources other than Amazon, and then enabling downloads from 3rd party sources such as the Downloader app in the Fire device's Settings / Developer options menu, so it functions properly.

Ohh Lord... not the TM30 debacle again... Some of this stuff is simply a nonsensical mystery... as with the following example: I've made one and only one TM30 report in Thailand to BKK CW back in 2019 or so when Immigration launched their campaign about that, and began refusing to do extensions of stay without a valid TM30... So I managed to successfully do one back then, and have had the slip in my passport ever since. Since then, I've renewed my retirement extension multiple times over, and had numerous brief domestic Thai hotel stays before returning back to my same home in BKK... And then earlier this year, also had an international trip abroad before returning back to my BKK home... Then came time last month to once again do my annual retirement extension at BKK CW, and they were perfectly fine once again to accept my original 2019 TM30 slip as part of my extension paperwork, despite all the domestic overnighters and recent international trip as well that followed my original TM30 report. Which makes me wonder, do I really need to do another TM30 now just because of their new system? And if I don't, will BKK CW Immigration suddenly balk next August when the time rolls around again for another retirement extension, suddenly declaring that my 2019 report for my one and only ever home in BKK that was OK for all these prior years now suddenly isn't anymore?

I was going to say the same thing... The symptoms described by the couple don't sound like any kind of "electrocution" in water or moderate level electrical shock I've ever heard of... There have been all kinds of pool / spa related electrocutions reported here in Thailand in the past involving hotel guests, some fatal, and other providing quite a nasty shock. Usually down to shoddy electrical work combined with water at the site.

Not sure what exactly your "recoded" comment above is supposed to mean re Amazon's Fire TV devices... But, like others, I've been using numerous of them for years with successive models, and they've all worked great for streaming all kinds of content. To make use of them, though, you need to sign into the device with an Amazon account, or have the device already signed in, in a country where Amazon supports the devices. More specifically, to be clear, you don't need to physically be in either the U.S. or the U.K. at all. But you do need to have the device signed into a valid Amazon account (email address and password) in one of those Amazon device supported countries. In order to access the content you want on the Fire device, you can either run the VPN of your choice off your wifi router if it supports that, or if it doesn't, the Amazon app store for Fire devices contains the apps for all kinds of different commercial VPN providers including most of the major ones. The better VPN providers these days have what's called split tunneling in their apps, which allow the user to choose which apps on the device use its native IP connection (such as one for Thailand) vs which one use its VPN connection (such as for connecting to the U.S. or U.K.) So for example, with a split tunneling VPN app, you could use the Thai IP to connect a Netflix Thailand account on the device, and at the same time use a UK VPN connection to give you access to the BBC or something UK based like that. Also, more broadly, the Fire TV devices are basically a modified version of the Google Android OS.... So once the Fire device is up and running, you also can sideload regular Android apps for things that may not be directly available from the Amazon app store. Android/Google TV apps work especially well, since they're already designed to work with a remote control as opposed to a touch screen, which would be the case for Android mobile apps.

Ever wonder how there can be so many different anti-corruption agencies in Thailand, and yet, government corruption flourishes here from top to bottom, and the really guilty ones are rarely held to account by any of them...

Wow, the government's timing is REALLY bad on this... Just in the news in the past couple days... --Phuket Immigration arrests a Chinese guy who fled China to Thailand after allegedly committing a 5 billion baht fraud in his home country... and... --there was the case of the three Kazakhs who allegedly abducted and beat a businessman here, alllegedly at the direction of two Russians, in an attempt to get their hands on his crypto assets. Big walking billboards for the government's new Immigration rules. ???? As an alternate version of a past Immigration saying used to go, "Bad guys in, good guys out!" ????

What happened to the sinsod money? Or, you broke up pre-marriage before it ever came to that?

Which Immigration office?

Perhaps a compromise and instead agree to pony up for breast implants for her??? At least then, he (and her family) would be getting some tangible return on his investment!

You mean, they're not ALL here merely trying to peacefully escape Putin and his war against Ukraine???

Some do... some don't.. It all depends on the individuals involved... My general sense is it's becoming a somewhat less common thing, particularly among younger, modern thinking Thais.... But even when sinsod DOES occur, it's very common lately for the family to put up the big money for show at the ceremony, and then take it back after everyone's gone home... As I said above, thus face is satisfied.

True, I wasn't trying to paint all Thai guys with the same bad brush... But unfortunately for Thai women, it seems that there are more than enough very bad ones out there as well.

The normal solution for this kind of demand, for Thais and farangs alike, is to negotiate with the parents for the family to put up the sinsod for show at the wedding ceremony, and then take the money back themselves once the ceremony is done. That way, face is satisfied. The fact the Redditor involved is apparently unaware that such arrangements are common here is seemingly a bad sign for his familiarity with Thailand and Thai customs. Of course, the daughter could instead end up with a Thai husband up in Isan, who like too many stories reported in the news here over the years, will repeatedly cheat on her with other women, do drugs and drink to excess, become insanely jealous, and ultimately beat/attack her causing serious bodily harm. But hey, it's their daughter, and the parents can decide.

Normally at BKK CW, the extension of stay and 90 day report, if doing the latter in person, are separate transactions done at separate work areas/counters. Typically, BKK CW will want to see a valid 90-day reporting receipt as part of your extension application paperwork. So if you don't have a valid one (not already past due) when you go for your extension, you might want to handle the 90-day report transaction first.

A fetid sewer that just scratches the surface of what goes on in the RTP here....

The vague account in the OP news report resembles the account my Thai wife gave me from her reading of the Thai news... That the village Kamnan had some understanding or expectation that Major Saibua was supposed to promote a relative of the Kamnan who was/is serving in the police. And when Saibua supposedly refused to go ahead with the promotion, that's what led to the Kamnan allegedly instructing his subordinate to shoot (and kill) Saibua right there at the party. And that Kamnan supposedly is heavily involved in the local trucking business and part of the arrangement whereby truckers have to pay the police for special stickers that allow them to avoid any enforcement. And the fatally shot officer was, of course, part of the local Highways Police.

As for the U.S. military to which you alluded above, the broad COVID vaccination requirement was rescinded, over the objections of the Pentagon, at the beginning of 2023 because of a law passed by Congress: January 11, 2023 Pentagon officially rescinds Covid-19 vaccine requirement for troops "Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has officially rescinded the military’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate for troops after President Joe Biden signed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring its dismissal. “Section 525 of the NDAA for FY 2023 requires me to rescind the mandate that members of the armed forces be vaccinated against Covid-19, issued in my August 24, 2021 memorandum … I hereby rescind that memorandum,” Austin said in a memo on Tuesday night. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/politics/military-covid-vaccine-rescinded/index.html

You're citing an article from back in 2022.... The facts are: --the original Pfizer vaccine, commercially marketed as Comirnaty, did ultimately receive full FDA approval and was used as such. --the subsequent second generation bivalent Pfizer vaccine currently being used is under FDA emergency use authorization. --the new 3rd generation vaccines are expected to receive some kind of FDA and CDC approval in the coming month. As for the past history of Comirnaty (first gen Pfizer vaccine) from a credible source unlike yours above: Pfizer vaccine approved in US, marketed as Comirnaty September 2, 2021 CLAIM: There is currently no FDA-approved vial of COVID-19 vaccine available in the U.S. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Pfizer vaccine, which is now marketed as Comirnaty, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use by those 16 and over and is available in the U.S. ... The formulation used in the FDA-approved Comirnaty vaccine is identical to the shot that previously received emergency use authorization." https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-120794035019

At this point, it's somewhat confusing as to Pfizer's COVID vaccine naming conventions in the U.S. Comirnaty certainly was the marketing name they used in the U.S. for their original monovalent COVID vaccine, which first received EUA approval and later full approval from the FDA... As best as I can tell, they may not have continued the marketing term Comirnaty for Pfizer's 2nd generation bivalent vaccine in the U.S., the only version currently authorized and being used in the U.S. now. (As explained above, the FDA withdrew its original authorization for the original monovalent vaccines when they were replaced by the newer, currently in use 2nd generation bivalent vaccines.) Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines April 18, 2023 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule for most individuals. This action includes authorizing the current bivalent vaccines (original and omicron BA.4/BA.5 strains) to be used for all doses administered to individuals 6 months of age and older, including for an additional dose or doses for certain populations. The monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the United States. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-changes-simplify-use-bivalent-mrna-covid-19-vaccines https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines#authorized-vaccines

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/comirnaty