Jack100

I worked there for a while , I must say the Libyans were never noted for their comic sense of humour ......

A budding Mata Hari ............

About 5-6 years it was a real pleasure to drive down SCC to the lake and back  for lunch  , a relief from Pattaya noise and traffic .

I went there this year and was staggered as to how much it had changed . Almost   a 10 Km  continous ' Soi Buakao '  -no pavments ,  endless

shophouses and businesses .

I'm sure it's all for the better but................

On ‎21‎/‎9‎/‎2560 at 8:52 PM, puck2 said:

Because of the 13 paragraphs let me answer step by step.

Puck - could you expand on those points ?

 

 

 

 

 

So we now put faith in a former Gadaffi strongman who was fighting for his country in Chad , got captured  and  "turned " by the CIA  .

Heads up   an anti Gadaffi  " brigade '  based in the USA  and  after a failed  Libya attempted coup  attempt  lies low .

He then   turns up as a Libya strongman -    after all the heavy fighting has been done by others.

Should work out well for the Libyans !

I would imagine in most other places an irate papa or God forbid mother would have something to say. - or probably do about this man.Why not in Thailand?

9 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

I don't know if it's fair to blame him for starting the mess. The Saudis et alii were certainly encouraged by his reaction to the kind of reception that only a dictatorship can reliably muster. But he certainly helped to make it worse.

He's new to the job and maybe he didn't realize  those fireside chats over a Perrier water with the  Sheik

would   actually be -   actioned -  the next day  -   with fire and fury .

Seems the Qatari's needed a  bit of a shake down so maybe he's accomplished something "foreign'   to make up for the domestic stuff .

Seems the Brexits who confidently predicted , well  over a year ago now , that the sterling drop was just a  short term thing  ( blame the currency  speculators  etc )  might have been a tad optimistic .............

I think Donald has finally realized that he has an important base in Qatar , 15,000 troops or whatever and maybe he shouldn't really have started this mess in the first place  .

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

7 hours ago, LannaGuy said:

Of course there has been corruption here for as long as Thailand has existed and none would be more delighted to see it removed than I but your analysis is too simplistic and naive. Yingluck was a minor player who was about to be served up as a political pawn by    >>  SNIP <<<

 

A minor player -  35 billion confiscated  - I'd like to hear about the real big boys !

Seems they also confiscated 20 billion from his personal accounts  - must say they do it different in Thailand

Not being a billionaire myself , not even once over , I'm  not sure how they work but I'm almost sure that to achieve such wealth

you are supposed to have , not friends but a series of friendly aquaintances  - people   you  befriend or shun depending  on how things are going

or how you may think they go in the future.

Personally I always preffered  having a few beers down the pub with my mates !

Don't you just love this guy . !

I'm sure it's all an unfortunate  misunderstanding and some sort of Solomic solution will be found .

For a nation who , apparently  ,  hate  confrontation they sure like  to rough it  when it comes to politics .

Due  to Trumps brilliant negotiating skills , honed in the cut and thrust of countless  New York  real estate  deals -  plus the good cop/bad cop routine with Mcmanus   !  Poor Kim never had a chance ................

So the people who voted out were fools? Must have been the same ones who weren't permitted a vote to go in. Into the EEC, that is; not the EC, not the EU.

I had an old friend who is   rabid anti EU   -  going so far as to stand as a Referendum party MP years ago , financed by Sir James  Goldsmit  .

He assured me  on 25 June 2016 the drop in the pound was just a  " temporary thing '  - my answer was that since   he's been living in the same house for 45 years in Twickenham  and still  hadn't managed to install  central heating  - it would be foolish for me not to believe him .  

Hmmm I thought they were all lovely girls and had a heart of gold .....

Seems some people on this board dont like Kim 3rd ..........

When I lived in Rangoon  sorry Yangon many years ago they used  teams of prisoners (chained !) to clean up the streets .

Just a thought .

On ‎8‎/‎1‎/‎2017 at 0:46 PM, Jingthing said:

So you're grading the orange clown on a curve because everyone knows he's totally unqualified to president, or even head of dog catching for that matter?

Hilarious.

Better check your facts before spouting fake info:

George Stephanopoulos

January 20, 1993

June 7, 1993

138 days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director

 

Jingt , you left out  the next two words  " de facto"  - ie   while he was  officially " employed  " 138 days he only lasted a few weeks on the job - someone else stepped in on an unofficial basis  - you could do it in those days .

Far be it for me to defend Trump but I am old enough to remember Billy  Clinton  (1992 campaign)  when he picked his communications   director  ,  had a similar  long name - George Stephanopoulos -  he was a total embarrassment and only lasted a few weeks longer .than Tony and was replaced.

George and Clinton however , were supposed to be polished , experienced   politicians and  not   real estate moguls
and talk show hosts. 

The impeachment process takes too long , I believe the  onset of Alzheimers will bring the process to an earlier end .  There are already some signs of this - repetition , etc .

Mmmm  -  no change there then -   one year on -  - just the near 20% drop in my monthly  pension cheque . 1

In Trumpspeak the response to this tragic situation would be that he prefers healthy to sick politicians ..............

All screwed  up from the start  , there was that red bus with 50 million written on it . Oh  and I remember Nigel on tv  bragging about how the pound went UP when they announced the  Brexit referendum - of  course  that was in January 2016 and it was actually the dollar going DOWN   against every currency

in the world for some other reason altogether .

Quite amazing that a political party leader would tell such porkies  on the BBC.