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Of course it would be nearly impossible for someone to find out his password or post something on his Facebook page that was already opened, prior to committing this offense. Therefore no investigation is required. The RTP has some of the smartest and brilliant investigators found anywhere. Many are trained in Scotland Yard. They know a crime when they see one. No need to question this one. And besides as many of us know Koh Tao does not have a crime problem and the five families there do not have any influence or wealth.
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I am confused. What is the purpose of the visit? Since he has already made his conclusions, why the interview?
Is he going to attempt to discredit her, after interviewing her in a language he does not speak? How objective will the translator he? Is he open minded? If he finds anything out, will he defy his superiors and report it anyway?
Someone, for some reason, I cannot explain why I am skeptical of this meeting, and his motives.
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A modern day Thai sword fight. Imagine if any of them had any fighting skill? More like Laurel and Hardy. Unfortunately, the taxi drivers here do not reflect the best of Thai society. LOL.
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As usual, Trump is not a man of his word. He actually said he was looking forward to the interview. Now the Piper comes calling, and they say absolutely not. I think his entire side knows he would end up in prison, and they are doing everything they can to shield, their colluding, treasonous, lying, very guilty client.
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I do not even know how one even begins to feel affection for someone they met online, but have never met in person, much less send them all kinds of cash. It boggles my mind. One or two exchanges, are we going to meet, when, and where? And I am giving you 30 minutes. Over coffee. This is an audition. Nothing more. Lets get on with it.
I see guys falling head over heels for women they met online. They invest hundreds of hours calling and texting, with someone they never met. And 90% of the time, when they meet, there is no spark. Duh.
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I am not sure why this was worthy of a post. There are always going to be buttheads among the populace, wherever you go. Taxi drivers in Phuket, Samui and Pattaya lead the pack. What is the big deal? I ask them to use their meters. When they say no, I walk away, and find one that will. The vast majority in Bangkok will use their meters, and it usually only takes stopping two or three cabs to find one. Sometimes, the first time. So what? Talk about a minor inconvenience. As they say, water off a ducks back.
Outside of Bangkok is the real issue. The government has done zero, to get taxis in the above mentioned places to use their meters. Nothing. Less than zero. This is part of what we refer to, when we describe Little P. and the rest of his band of incompetents as completely absent from the job.
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This is a good, first baby step in the right direction.
1. I bring re-usable bags with me every time I go shopping. I use the larger shopping bags I buy in the US, which are made of recycled materials. Most of the clerks have to be dealt with. Even when they see my bag, they still start putting the stuff in plastic. I always mai sai toom. No plastic! Then they start loading up my bag. Most look at me like I am from Mars. Do I care? Not one iota. About 1% thank me, and get it. Not many do. My Thai wife does not like bringing the bags to the store. I force her to. By now, she expects it, and sometimes even asks if I have any bags in the car, or on the motorbike. Same with the water bottles. It used to embarrass her. Now, it is second nature, as I have been doing this for so long, she expects it. So, if a Thai can be conditioned to follow these simple principals, then anyone can.
2. I bring a bottle of water with me, every time I go to a restaurant. I refill my plastic bottles from the 20 liter bottles at home. It is easy. I never buy bottled water at a restaurant. This saves 300-600 bottles a year. I use a plastic bottle dozens of times. I never get any flack from the restaurants. Only once did someone say something to me. She said you cannot bring you own water. My response was if you serve the water in a glass bottle, and I do not have to consume a plastic bottle, I am happy to pay for that. She was lost. I told her to leave and get me my food. She went away.
We simply cannot say we are concerned about the environment, and then do nothing about it. Action demonstrates commitment. Lack of action demonstrates nothing.
Lastly, restaurants can demonstrate their commitment, by serving drinking water from the 20 liter bottles. It saves alot of plastic. They lose a small amount of revenue, by not selling thousands of bottles of water. But, their operation is still profitable, and they are making a real difference.
There really is not need to be consuming water in plastic bottles. At least not often. There are alternatives. Those damn bottles are a real culprit, when it comes to fouling the environment. What can we do, if we say we care?
What many refer to as toxic, in plastic bottles is BPA, and other toxic chemicals that leach from the plastic, if the bottle sits in the sun, or has been sitting for too long, or is re-used a few times. This can easily be avoided by purchasing these bottles shown here. They are on ebay, and shipping to Thailand is either free or less than $1. The bottles are one liter, and a half liter. Only $2-3 each. Worth it. I use them daily.
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18 hours ago, bkk6060 said:
Well, I am not Saudi and am surprised by your comments. You have many posts that I have "liked" about weak males in this country and through out the world. Comments on how women are controlling men and men are weak. Now you have changed your thinking and fighting for some female cause in a male dominated profession?
No, it currently is not the same here but you do not know what has been happening internally. I bet they all just did not make this decision "just because."
Hire females for certain circumstances no problem. In the US they are identified as "civilian investigators". Not sworn academy graduate cops. Yes indeed, they have a purpose and can be an asset. But, leave it at that....
Sorry to offend. I am against uber feminism for sure. But I do love women. And I admire alot of women. I think for certain positions, they would be a great asset to the RTP, who have zero credibility in any circles. As investigators, they might bring alot to the table. Why is it that I have such low confidence in alot of the current RTP "police investigators"? It almost sounds oxymoronic, does it not?
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Contrary to what the treasonous president says, outing him is a patriotic duty of a loyal American, who knows what is going on behind the scenes. We must encourage the majority, who oppose this creepy charlatan, to show their disapproval of his administration. Out them in public. This is what a democracy is made of. Trump is attempting to erase American democracy from the face of the earth. Start with the media. Then the opposition. Let us make those who work for tiny don feel exactly how captain chaos makes his opponents feel. Call them out. Every chance we get. We are going to start seeing alot more of this, as opposition to this hucksters plans continue to grow. And it is a good thing, though his supporters will attempt to demonize the movement, and will probably call these people traitors and not patriotic, when the exact opposite is true. Those that call out Trump, and his administration, are defending democracy.
And why not vilify and demonize Trump? It not only is fun, but it is the correct thing to do. In a democracy, when people really screw up, and this man does over and over again, they deserve our wrath. The wrath of the American people is just starting to show, with people like Nielsen, and Sanders being heckled out of restaurants. Good on those people. We need to see far more of that. And we need to see people calling out the huckster more often. He deserves that. He has earned it with his hatred, division, racist diatribes, support of dictators, alienation of our closest allies, and destruction of our economy. His supporters like to cite the macro economic numbers. Well, unless you are in real estate, or playing the stock market, or in the top 7% of Americans, you are hurting right now. Prices are skyrocketing, despite the fake inflation news from the very white house, and wages are stagnant. Consumer confidence is very, very low. Do not believe the hype. That is all it is. Nothing behind it.
Respect has to be earned, and never freely given. Not for the office, not for the man. He deserves none of our respect.
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On 9/5/2018 at 5:06 PM, TGIR said:
But unlike MSNBC, CNN posted double-digit year-over-year viewer declines in prime time and total day.
Richard Quest is entirely to blame for that. Does anyone else find him to be one of the most annoying people on the planet? I cannot even watch CNN, with the volume muted, when he is on. He is that annoying.
CNN has gone completely over the top. While I find them entertaining to watch, they are far too repetitive, and do not do enough investigative work. Fox however, is a dismal counterpoint. The world suffers from a lack of good news!
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9 hours ago, bkk6060 said:
Women have been a detriment to law enforcement in the US.
I do not know all about here but the article explains some of it.
Quiting for family, maternity leave, bad attitudes always trying to prove they are better then men,
the BS sexual harassment claims, the fake injuries or reports of harassment so they can get
a bogus disability retirement.
As far as the sexual assault victims, hire female advocates or trained interviewers to conduct the interviews they do not have to be police officers.
There are some agencies just in Southern California where the female and males officers do not even talk unless it is necessary. Mostly based on the typical BS "he looked at me wrong" claims guys get tired of dealing with it.
Maybe the officials here see this heading in the wrong direction and want to stop it before it gets out of control like other countries.
You sound like a Saudi man. I am talking about investigators, not beat cops. And whatever applies there, does not apply here. Completely different situation entirely. Here, there are barely any benefits to take advantage of! And the sexual harassment thing would not be the same here. In California it is now illegal to tell a woman she looks good. Here? You really think a Thai woman would be offended by that?
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I smell a very toxic mix of sulphur, guilt, fear, and apprehension coming from the Oval Office. Anytime he comes under heat, he ratchets up the deflection technique. It is right out of Putin's playbook. Most despots employ the fake news narrative.
Tiny Don is going to leave the White House, and find that his brand is virtually worthless. He is radioactive. Nobody is going to want to have anything to do with him. Already, units in his building are becoming very hard to sell or lease, and there are virtually no future management deals in the works. Plus, he has lost 17 of his 19 merchandising deals, as his name is impossible to sell. Same with Ivanka. Closed up shop. The whole family is going down like the Titanic.
It is difficult to have compassion for this blowhard. He has brought this on himself, and seem to possess a wanton lust for self destruction.
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They should have more women investigators. Here in Thailand, they tend to be smarter, work harder, and be more clever than most men. As far as I am concerned, women are the glue that holds this nation together. They should be rewarded for their contributions to Thai society, which are vast and important to the nation. They suffer silently, as the society for some completely unknown reason, regards men as being superior. How false this notion is!
This is typical of a traditional minded organization, without vision or any real smarts. Also, something a small man would do, or decide to do. Can anyone guess where this directive came from?
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2 hours ago, soistalker said:
I had to think a while to remember who he was. It messed up that they embarrass him like that while he's just trying to work. And his excuse of taking the job to stay in entertainment is B.S.. But it seems to have worked in a backdoor kind of way.
What is he supposed to say? I am broke, my luck ran out, and this is all I could get? A man has to have some pride, I guess. Nothing wrong with hope and a dream. Perry is worth $600 million, so he can afford to give the guy a break, and I always enjoy seeing a man who is down on his luck, get another chance at success.
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3 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:"...Many senior officials in the Trump administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of the president's agenda to protect the country from his worst inclinations, an anonymous Trump official wrote in a column published by the New York Times on Wednesday..."
Few people are more critical of the Trump administration in general and Trump himself in particular than I, but this story gives me the willies. It is scary as hell for someone to sit within an administration showing one public face while secretly showing a different one in private; the arrogance and deceit are truly frightening.
Like it or not (and I REALLY don't like it), Trump was elected by the American people (more than 60 million votes), and I have yet to see proper, unequivocal evidence that the election wasn't 'free and fair'.
If this secret 'resister' truly feels that his or her actions are really necessary to stop Trump and protect the country, then they should stand up and say so publicly.
Allowing/tolerating people to execute their own agenda secretly might sound good to people (like me) who think Trump is a dangerous menace, but what would have been your reaction if there was a similar column when Obama was President? Would you have been okay with that? I would not have been okay with it. Period.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
He really wasn't. Clinton won by over 3 million votes. There was no mandate. The rigged electoral college was the reason why he was installed. Many of us knew he would be a terrible president, without any of the qualities necessary for leadership. But, few realized he would be this bad, this incompetent, this hateful, divisive, partisan, and ridiculous.
So, I applaud these people for doing what they can do, to expose the charlatan huckster.
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5 hours ago, transam said:
I don't dispose of my ciigy butts "anywhere"....
Filthy habit.........You have never farted in a lift...?
I give you credit for disposing of your butts properly. And if I do cut one occasionally while outside, I try to do it when others are not around. Very, very few smokers ever demonstrate that level of courtesy. Yes the smell, the ashes, everything associated with smoking, for a non smoker is filthy.
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3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:If these news media people continue to pump ⛽ out inaccurate stories, some needed steps should be forthcoming.
Why is it, that Trump's followers follow lock step with him, when it comes to the criticism of the media, and the so called fake news, and play along with his whole made up fake narrative theme? And yet, they never question the multitude of lies that this charlatan pumps out daily? Does that not strike some as a contradiction of sorts? Even when he is caught in a lie, it is still the fault of the fake news. Strange.
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Sort of cute how the movement has been flipped up on it's head, with one of it's spokeswomen being accused of seducing a 17 year old boy. She says she could not resist, as he overcame her with his "forceful aggression". She is 20 years his senior. She could have helped herself. She did help herself. To his body. Now, nothing but radio silence, since the photos came out of them in bed together. I suspect Argento might go the way of Spacey. Radioactivity! Unemployable. Oh well.
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I always thought it was the other way around. People get intoxicated, and then they want to smoke. Is someone confused? Did they think the smoking ban was for ganga? Or is it just another confused, incompetent official making the bizarre declaration of the day?
Personally, I have no issue with a smoking ban on the beach. I am always astonished that somehow smokers think they have the right to dispose of their cigarette butts anywhere they happen to be. It is a very ugly habit, but then again smoking is a filthy habit, so perhaps the litterbug part of the equation should be expected?
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Somehow, the Spacey allegations ring true. Over 30 men came forward? The Seagal and Anderson allegations seem vague, and fake. Seagal can get alot of action, on his own. He does not need to prey on unwilling women. Some of these allegations are ridiculous. Morgan Freeman told a woman on the set "my you look so lovely today", and she reported him saying something "sexually inappropriate". What on earth is she talking about? Just another case of an American woman being completely out of touch with her femininity. That was the only crime committed!
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When you are sitting in the tower of your ivory castle, looking down on your subjects, with hundreds of millions of baht in the bank, it is quite easy to say that the floods are not going to be a problem this year. The lack of empathy, compassion, regard, respect, and concern, that most members of this administration have for the common man is always astounding to me. And General Chatchai, who was the numnut nitwit who uttered the statement that the country is safe from flooding this year, is the ultimate numskull.
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3 hours ago, wotsdermatter said:
I have no idea where the above noted comment derived but I do ask, which century does the writer refer to because he/she makes reference to Buddhism but no other philosophical way of life, but makes the sweeping and encompassing inclusion of peoples from world wide origins coming to Thailand to focus on Buddhist activities, e.g. meditation - which is not a Buddhism original - pilgrimages, learning about the origins of Buddhism - which was in India - and other concepts of the philosophy, including, "... its art, shrines, architecture and way of life. " No mention is made of other countries that adopted Buddhism before Thailand did. Another piece of brown stuff from the rear end of an elephant or any other animal? Alternatively, the writer has his/her head stuck in that location and is part of the substance that mushrooms are grown in.
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It was a quote from a recent speech given by the illustrious tourism minister. The purpose of the quote was to establish how brain dead, non visionary, tone deaf, and incompetent this man is. And to think he is also in charge of the nation's sports? The secondary purpose was to ask, how on earth could anyone be capable of running a ministry that is supposed to deal with both tourism, and sports, and do it effectively? Are sports really that poorly regarded here by the numnuts at the top? Do they not have any pride?
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Another example of the extraordinary lack of vision and leadership within Thailand today. Are they really trying to turn the country into a sanitary place, with the same sort of boring, monotonous, lifeless, vanilla, lack of street life we see in the West? If so, they are doing a good job.
In my opinion the street life here is what makes some areas special. Cleaning up the vendors on Sukhumvit, was a good move in the right direction, as the congestion walking down the sidewalk was too much. But, this? What have they cleaned up? What is the improvement supposed to be? Does anyone even know?
Was it an attempt to get rid of the backpacker crowd? What was it?
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How would they be able to trace the HIV chain back to this shop? And there are tens of thousands of these small shops, that probably operate with little to no regulation. No doubt, this could be a method of transfer. Do they use proper sterilization techniques? Is that monitored by the fools at the top? Unless cases like this are reported, do they care?
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We will never really know, as a paranoid, insular, protectionist, obstructionist, partisan senate is blocking thousands upon thousands of documents from being released. So much for impartiality and fair play.