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So really, she just changed her name? I attempted to adopt my stepson when he was in his teens, but was told by my Thai lawyer that he was too old for adoption so I didn't press ahead on it. Same for the US. He was 16 when I started the process. Even so, I may bring it up with my son, but at the moment he keeps his biological father's name even though this guy (Thai) has been in the wind. I've never met him and I don't believe my stepson communicates with him.

So she is legally, under Thai law, you daughter? That didn't require a court visit and a judge's signature? Were you provide with legally binding paperwork?

That they have. They won the moment the US made a martyr of Ali Khamenei who was sitting in his home-office waiting to be martyred. Just like Vietnam won, just like Iraq won, just like Yeman won, and just like Afghanistan’s Taliban won. They had all won shortly after the fighting started because the US can 'make a desert in an invaded country and call it peace,' but they can not win an insurgency militarily. Never have, never will. All of the wars the US fought for decades ended with massive destruction of the targeted country, near 100% tactical combat wins against rag-tag coalitions of insurgent fighters, hundreds of thousands (millions) of civilian deaths (callously called "Collateral Damage), yet at the end - they lose the war. So will go Iran.

If I was a member of an Abrahamic religion, I'd be screaming for retribution, i.e., global Jihad or global Crusade against the murders. And had my family been victims, I'd spend the rest of my life planning ways to seek revenge including on the soil of the invader's countries. But luckily I'm a Buddhist and not from one of the "eye-for-an-eye" Abrahamic religions. I'd personally seek acceptance and renew my own tenets of non-violence and find ways to forgive my enemies compassionately from a Buddhist perspective.

I guarantee Iran will want, 1. a treaty that ends all possibility of future attacks by the US and Israel, 2. a complete lifting of sanctions, 3. an acknowledgement that their nuclear program can continue unabated with a 20% enrichment cap like all the other signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement, and 4) reparation for the damage done during the US attacks. Possibly 5) that Israel nuclear program is capped that same as Iran's with the IAEA monitoring and the destruction of all of their nuclear weapons. However - Reality! That ain't gonna happen anytime soon, so this war will slog on for a long time. Did you hedge with oil stocks? Now the more rapacious AN members will no doubt be cheering for Israel (and/or the US) dropping nukes on Iran. That will almost guarantee that Iran will finish the enrichment of the 60% Uranium Hexafloride in underground processing facilities to produce fissile Uranium and finish their bombs that they had chosen up to this point not to create. The elder Khamenei had a fatwa (religious order) NOT to build a bomb, but in their stupidity Trump decided to murder him along with his son's daughter and wife. Now his son is the Supreme Leader, and I doubt that fatwa will hold. Drop nukes on Iran and yeah, a few million Iranians will be genocided, but it will then takes less than two weeks for Iran to create nukes (if the assassination of Ali Khamenei has already become the catayst for them to finish producing bombs already) - then Israel will be physically erased from the map. Personally, I hope that sanity reins. But who knows. We live in a world ruled by insane megalomaniacs. These people don't listen to we "common people." They only do what is in their own ****ed-up interests. And the global village suffers.

Good lord man, do you live under a rock. Amazing. I didn't know people can be that ignorant and ideologically shielded from global Geo-politics like a major war.

Because he know that his conservative base who voted for him based on his promise NOT to get involved in foreign war, are totally PO'ed that he got involved into Iran. So now he can read the tea-leaves that Republicans are going to get slaughtered in the mid-terms. But Israel wanted the war so he was beholden to act. The war created the conditions for the closure of the Straits of Hormuz, which stops oil from flowing, which becomes a shock to the global economies including the US. And as Clinton's political strategist, James Carville, so aptly put - "It's The Economy Stupid!" The war will be a major drag on the economy unless this is ended - like immediately. But Iran isn't going to stop unless they have iron-clad treaties that lift sanction and guarantee that neither the US or Israel will attach them again in the future. But Trump won't sign a treaty like that (nor will Congress ratify it - Israel will threaten to pull their AIPAC campaign funding) as the overthrow of Iran and the return of the Pahlavi Clan has been the strategic goal of the US since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. So the end result? The war will continue and the Straits will remained closed, and most likely, the global economy suffers. And Trump will get the blame.

So Why did Trump Start this War? Because his masters in Israel told him, "You either with us or against us, so get on board and get your 'Kosher Rating' or kiss campaign funds and contracts in Israel goodbye." There's reality. The Greater Israel Project envisions the existential destruction and breakup of Iran with ensuring sectarian chaos that follows. However - I don't particularly think that Trump wanted this war, but Netanyahu had him by the cojones - Think: Epstein blackmail and threats to pull the largess of Israeli billionaire. The Don desperately wants to be in their club even though he's not one of the chosen people.

We get hiccups in Northern Lamphun pretty often. A couple a week on average. Generally it a 5 second outage that takes my internet router offline and forces it to reboot. Then we get the real outage which most often happen during early to late evening thunderstorms like we've been having recently. Those no doubt take down power-lines and transformers.

Joining the Pattaya Flying Club just wouldn't be the way I'd check out. RIP

Saw that online. Man it hit hard.

Operation Epic Fury should be renamed to Operation Cluster Foxtrot. According to Connecticut US Senator Chris Murphy, the Trump Administration are all over the map with this fiasco of an unprovoked war of aggression. From Senator Murphy' X account: https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2031531835453309125 "I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share: 2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material. 3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge. 4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war. 5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable." What a bloody mess!

Terrorist defined: "An ad-hominid pejorative used by the simple-minded to demonize people they dislike or are too ignorant to understand." "A propaganda term used to demean an adversary." Term used in a sentence: "Everyone whom dinsdale hates are terrorists. All cultures dinsdale fails to understand are terrorists."

Creating martyrs. Talk about not understanding the customs and culture of the country you attack unprovoked killing their religious leader in the process. Talk about an EPIC own goal.

Epic George Carlin on The Persian Gulf War. Now just substitute "Iran" for "Iraq" and it's applicable to today's Operation Epic Fury Fatigue. https://youtu.be/B5xGPU1QWok "I live by a few rules, and my first rule is: 'I don't believe anything my government tells me.'" Epic - Ditto that.

‘The recent increase in oil and gas prices is TEMPORARY’ — White House Repeat repeat repeat. 'Short-term pain for long-term gain.' — White House Propaganda techniques: Repetition (or Ad Nauseam), Trivialization, Firehose of Falsehoods

Hypocrisy In The Imperial West: If Mojtaba Khamenei is assassinated by the US, it's called "regime change." If Donald Trump is assassinate by Iran, it's called terrorism. But? If one sovereign nation assassinates the leader of another it is vile imho. Political assassinations are amoral. Why not use the US logic and say that if Iran assassinates Trump, it's "regime change?" In reality, Iran doesn't need to do anything to accomplish regime change in the US. The US voters will take care of that in the US mid-term elections. And the assassination of heads of state and religious leaders is morally reprehensible.

My wife doesn't work. She had her own business, but is now retired. I can support us both in Thailand.

Ok - I'm interested. Exactly how did that work. I was considering adopting my step son when he was 14 but was told it was impossible. So I'm interested in how did you Amphur process that request.

Yep, the terrorist regime of the US is bombing innocent civilians on the streets of Iran. The terrorist regime of Israel has literally leveled what was once Gaza. It all depends on how you define "terrorists." In the meanwhile grok this: "The First Casualty of War is the Truth." Most Westerners buy Western propaganda by the whole cloth. By the way, George W. Bush is a war criminal for actions surrounding the unprovoked war of aggression on Iraq during Gulf War 2. Yeah - I was against that and still find it revolting. History will put Donald J. Trump in the same category - war criminal - for actions surrounding the unprovoked war of aggression on Iran. Study history. The US sows global chaos in the name of its imperial interests. It arrives promising peace and stability; it leaves a trail of ashes. "To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace" -Tacitus' Agricola, 98 CE Little changes over the millennia.

Freedom fighters seeking to rebel against US/Israeli aggression? Can you blame them? It's asymmetric warfare, IF, they actually move on it. Personally I believe it's propaganda to scare the commoners back in the homeland with the Iranian bogymen. But?

It looks like he found one.

Why is he on vacation? There is a war going on, he should be in the IDF fighting for his country, not larping as a non-combatant tourist.

I added to my oil stock holding last night. BTFD Stock price up $10. You really don't understand WHY to prices dropped. That's Ok. Believe as you wish.

If you want to blame a country, blame Israel and the US for launching an unprovoked war of aggression on Iran. Pair that with *perfidy as Iran were in negotiations with the US and were expecting to sign treaties regarding their nuclear program along with the IAEA, but the US used those negotiation to lull the Iranians and then attack - for the second time. As long as the US and Israel continue the aggression, Iran doesn't even need to shut down the Straits of Hormuz - INSURANCE COMPANIES DID. That entire area is now a war zone and Force majeure is the rule of the day. No insurance company in their right minds are going to insure a ship traveling the Straits. The US and Israel are aggressor nations - blame the aggressors. *Perfidy: In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deceptive tactic where one side pretends to act in good faith, such as signaling a truce, but does so with the deliberate intention of breaking that promise. The goal is to trick the enemy into lowering its guard, such as stepping out of cover to accept a supposed surrender, only to exploit its vulnerability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy