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Oh goodie! It looks like Trump is gonna take the US to war in Iran. He "signaled" in an ABC interview that "it's possible we could get involved." You gotta read between the line with this dude. Cui bono. Who benefits. If Trump and the wealthy can make money - consider it a done deal. Conquer Iran, take over their oil resources, build bases in Tehran and up and down the Iranian coast. It would be a "Big Beautiful War. Lotsa free oil. America controlling South West Asia. Peace and Love and The American Way." Sure - why not? Cue up the Beach Boys with Trump singing McCain's "Bomb Bomb Iran."

The game right now is "quid pro quo." Israel and Iran punching each other, although the story in Western media will always be, "Israel is destroying Iran without suffering a scratch." You know, the same media that runs the stories that, "Russia is losing the Ukraine conflict badly." The lesson here - you can't trust main-stream media or whatever is coming out from state actors on either side of a conflict. You have to use multiple independent sources of information to scratch the surface of factual reality. As the old saying goes, "The first casualty of war is truth." Or believe anything you want. Truth is fungible. Sadly. Bat Yam, Israel

I have a good idea. Make it even more difficult to navigate immigration, like starting with bad attitude toward arriving tourists, and then let all foreigners know that Thais love the influx of money, but as xenophobes and ardent nationalists, really don't like having non-Thais in the country at all. Tolerated, but otherwise disliked. Hence news stories all of the time about how bad foreigners "shock" Thais. Deplorable farangs! What's that old saying, "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Something like that!

Thousands of blue-haired liberal Thais descend on Bangkok and begin burning the city and demanding you be allowed to live and work in Thailand because, "You're just trying to have a chance at a good life!" No? Yeah, exactly - didn't think so.

The real siege of L.A. - ICE raids are shredding the city’s social fabric of immigrant lives The real siege of L.A. - ICE raids are shredding the city’s social fabric of illegal immigrant lives. There - fixed it for ya! I bet when it comes to stories about farang lives being shredded in Thailand by immigration, you're probably at the front of the line with quips like, "We're only guests in Thailand." I bet I'm right, 'eh?

If you compare the Russian Victory Day parade to Trump's, Trump's parade reminds me of some little kid who had a box of those green army toys and lined them up on the road where they got run over by the kid's dad when he drove into the driveway after which daddy got out of the car and gave him a spanking for playing in the road. Basically pathetic.

Are these caddies like massage, gogo, bar girls? The answer is "Yes." But life in Thailand is both fungible and transactional. Guys normally have that figured out by the end of the first year living here.

Have her blow on your balls. That should make your putter flutter.

You still don't understand how things work here? Poor man.

Yeah - I glossed over that.

Actually I just shut up and let my wife do all of the talking. At this point she personally knows 3 IOs at our office on a casual level and hangs out and gossips with them.

The Immigration Office I go to takes appointment. They have a local online portal. Check with your immigration office and see if you can make an appointment so that your wife and plan ahead.

Up to 45 days before.

You can get a bank letter and a 3 month listing of statements all by yourself. It's your account. In fact, if you have a joint account, you can't use it. The account must be in your own name only. So I have no idea why people are telling you that you need your wife to come in person in order to get a bank letter and a print out of last 3 months (2 months in some places) of statements. That's nonsense. You can get a K.2 by yourself too. This is why you obtain a yellow house book and a Pink National ID card. Take a signed copy of your wife's ID card as well. Take your original marriage certificate with you. Your wife doesn't need to be there.

Yep. Mine changed their minds two years ago and demand 3 months of statements plus copies of the bank book.

No. Which is why you need to be prepared.

Which is exactly what you need to do OP. I do that at my own Immigration office year to year because each Immigration office is its own fiefdom and things change year-to-year at individual offices that may not affect anywhere else.

So wife must be there with me at the amphur to get it ? Yes. or can I get it on my own? No.

This is a little dated by was drawn up by Ubon Joe who was our resident expert up until his death - RIP🙏

Watched Cronenberg's The Shrouds and was like, "Ok?" by the end. Sorta the same feeling I had at the end of Videodrome.

Speed Kills - especially when poor drivers encounter rain.

Nah. Just leave it on the coffee table over night and eat it to clear the hangover cobwebs from the previous night's kegger party.

Margarita pizzas are really good if made right. However, I tend to like thicker crust pizzas. We had a really good Italian restaurant in Tacoma, WA and Margarita pizzas and Spaghetti Puttanesca were two of my favorite.

That's at least two or three grade levels above most other "i hait donld turmp cuz he stoopid" Einsteins here on AseanNow whose primary purpose in life is to rage on about how badly they detest Donald J. Trump. But post after post after post after post after post just goes to show that Trump has taken up residence in your mind and you allow him to live in your head rent free. I don't particularly like Trump and the last 146 days since his inauguration has given me even more reason to dislike him. He constantly lies, his words mean nothing, he can't be trusted, he engages in hyperbole, and is a narcissistic megalomaniac and an otherwise f'd-up human being - I get that. But the constant, never-ending disparagement and derogatory taunting and explicit trolling that is then rolled up into post after post after post after post after post by the same people is just freaking infantile. It accomplishes nothing other than to prove that Trump has infested your mind and that you're unable to exorcise him. These posts are like a manic-compulsive Christian genuflecting and crossing themselves over and over again during their waking hours in order to chase the satanic-dictator and virus-king, Trump The Magnificent and Sublime - out of your head in a desperate act to dispel the Trump-Demon from inside your brain. It's just pathetic. That level of compulsive behavior in not a sign of good mental health.

I am 100% PRO-IMMIGRATION when it is done 100% Legally. Apply for a visa to be an agricultural worker, preform the work, when Winter arrives - go home. I am 100% ANTI-IMMIGRATION when people cross the border illegally or overstay their visas. Just like here in the LOS. With that said, Congress could and should create legislation to clean up the mess at ICE and to provide solid, well established visa systems that FACILITATE the ability of migrant, seasonal labor to enter the US labor force, and then leave when their visas are expired. Also - there should be no US Welfare for migrant labor. If the US can give illegal migrant labor free healthcare, free housing, and access to SNAP, then god-damn-it they can give a US citizen with eight years of military service and all other US veterans 100% free healthcare, free or subsidized housing, and access to SNAP too. But that's not what happens. US vets are kicked to the streets and illegal are provided with housing and subsidies that offset the outrageous cost of living in the US. When my grandparents and great-grandparents came to the US at the end of the 19th century, they weren't greeted with a social safety net. You came to the US and you worked to survive. If you couldn't survive, that was your problem. In today's United States we are now told that those who cross our borders illegally to work are welcome and deserve to obtain housing and economic benefits that not even US veteran can obtain. Again - I'm 100% PRO-LEGAL-IMMIGRATION. But large corporations which depend on this labor expect the State to pick up the tab for these worker's healthcare, housing, food, and lodging. THAT'S WHAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH!