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No problem, well, until they bring the signed confessions into court. One brave old women walks, and everyone else?
"You sign confession. Say you gamble. You have guilty. You pay fine, we commute 1 year sentence."Good luck. It ain't over until it's over.
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Time to upgrade to Sukhoi aircraft.
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Multi skilled , multi money , multi friends in high places,
Yes, but, It is not enough to win a ski race
Times are , the winner 2.36
the top ten 2.39
the top 50 2.55
Mae @ 3.26 last place , she can ski no doubt , just not to an accepted standard where by she would have qualified to represent a different flag at the games, would she have made any other team
Only a minute off, maybe she was slipping the course, I'm sure the next racer appreciated it
I put a video up. Yeah, she was slipping some of the gates, but to her credit, she 'carved' though most of them, at least on the video.
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Using US wheat in their beer methinks. Wheat growers routinely spray highly toxic glyposate on their wheat to improve yield. The government doesn't interfere. When Germany buys US wheat for their beer, you get weedkiller in your beer. This isn't rocket science.
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I watch something similar a couple of weeks ago as a white sedan ran out of lane on a four lane road that narrowed down to two lane. Instead of slowing and merging behind the car in the outside lane, he tried to force his way by on the shoulder and almost ran down a motorcyclist. The sedan braked, speed up and pass the truck, force oncoming traffic off the road, then rammed the truck driving both cars off the road at high speed.
Thai drivers are truly suicidal and aggressive beyond belief. Any joy that I had in driving in the US is long gone since driving here. It's a series of close calls everytime you get on the road. -
Mussolini had a word for the tight bond between corporate interests and governments. Then you think that governments work for 'the people'. Yeah, sure. But therein lies the unholy alliance of 'agreements' such as the TPP. The hell with the citizens and free enterprise.
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So many snakes, so few recipes..... I once had a snake soup in HK, still remember the taste....
Good or bad?
I wouldn't kill anything for fun (recently caught and released and monocled cobra from my garden) but happy to eat things as long as they aren't endangered,
I hear cobra is pretty tasty, like rattlesnake, but better.
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Remember Steve....the guy who got spiked in the heart while filming/playing with a Sting Ray? You might be better off filming gophers.
Careful...venom and cameras are like drinking and driving.
Steve made it a habit to claim that he had never been envenomated while working with snakes. But, different species, and one screw up, and the rest is history.
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It depends. GREXIT or no GREXIT. If the 'little people' say, "GREXIT", they will be punished.
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Opening scene of The X Files Season 10 Episode 7.
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Ceasefire can only come with the dismembering of ISIL, but this will not happen.
As much as media wants you to believe that , there are few other players who control the situation.
ISil could be easily eliminated if said players stopped to support it one way or another.
Just look at the facts , moment Kurds start to advance to push out isil, turkey bombs the crap out of them.
The moment Russia starts to cut off oil supply chain , Turks take out Russian jet .
Then all over sudden Saudi want to send army after almost 3 years of " silence "
What most people don't understand, is that last weekend, the world was on the brink of a crisis no less dire than the Cuban Missile Crisis. Someone in the West 'blinked'. So, not only don't the majority of people study history, they don't even understand current events.
Ask the average person, where is Oman? "Is that near Anaheim?" <head shake>
Yes, ignorance is bliss. What is truly terrifying is understanding.
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The Western alliance will do just about anything to prevent President Obama being upstaged by the Russian chess master. Last time around, NATO allies Turkey downed a Russian jet to sabotage a joint initiative by the two superpowers to bring the warring factions in Syria around the negotiating table.
Could the head-chopping Saudis, or one of the other extremist Islamic Gulf states which have covertly supported IS from the outset, be plotting some kind of mischief to trash the peace process?.
And if this is the case, are acting independently or at the behest of Washington strategists, whose use IS and other fundamentalist outfits to bring down the Assad regime has foundered so disastrously - thanks largely, of course, to Russia's intervention on the side of the Syrian leadership.
Throwing the Saudis and their sidekicks into a the fray in the hope of stealing at least some of the credit for winning the phony war against Daesh could be the last throw of the dice for Pentagon hawks. They have been running out of options ever since the Russians started destroying important terrorist targets - supply convoys as well as ground troops - which lengthy US and coalition bombing campaigns had inexplicably failed to destroy.
The US and its Allies really have nowhere to go but the negotiating table. After nearly three years of creating havoc, IS has proved as unfit for purpose as its CIA-created predecessor, Al Qaeda. Even its most enthusiastic supporters, the oil -rich Saudi sheiks, are now seeking to distance themselves from their lengthy, duplicitous involvement with the Humvee-riding bovver boys in black.
Once more, Putin has outsmarted his Western rivals and looks poised to emerge the hero of the hour, unless. . .
In a sinister and cynical move, the Saudi-backed HNC has already begun to poison the prospects for a lasting cease-fire, warning of possible Russian attacks on "moderate" Syrian groups such as the Free Syrian Army (the very same "moderate" outfit, as it happens, that spawned the current Emperor of the Islamic state, Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi!).
Could another "false flag" event be on the cards? One desperately hopes not for the sake of millions of Syrians who have already suffered enough from being pawns in somebody else's power game.
What the Saudis and other Gulf States don't understand is that the demolition of Syrian sovereignty is a measured step toward the demolition of all Middle East sovereignty and the implementation of a neo-Sykes–Picot Agreement that will alter the control of oil producing states in the region.
But nobody studies history any more. The 'Study of History' has degenerated to mean 'What Sean Hannity said on Fox News two weeks ago. <head shake> Well, ignorance is bliss afterall, 'eh? And unlike most world 'leaders', I'm pretty sure Putin already understand the gist of what I wrote above.
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I'm not Chinese. I'm from European ancestry. It's the concept that no matter how much we contribute to Thai society, we are always nothing but Outsiders, and will always be nothing but Outsiders. Never accepted. That's simply sad, and for a professed Buddhist nation, it's counter-intuitive.
Do stop your whinging, there are 100 000s of people born in Thailand , second and third generation, who arent recognised as Thai , are stateless with no Nationality .
They have a right to complain about not being "accepted"
Whinging?
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The Chinese come with busses, overrun the place and don't behave at all. I can imagine it's not possible to charge only Chinese.
The inside of the prayer hall is well worth a visit because of the beautiful wall paintings. What many of you don't see is that Thai people donate a lot which farang don't do.
The restoration of the temple after the earthquake could only took place because of gifts from Thai people and benefit expositions from other artists.
@ Harry, although the name is wat Rong Khun, it's not a temple in the meaning of practicing Buddhism but a masterpiece of art.
Thais are one of the most generous races in the world when it comes to donating.
They give merit, bun, which is the expectation that they will get something back if they give. Without that expectation, I doubt they would give.
I confuse all Thais I know when I say that I give for no other reason than it's the right thing to do. No other motive. They can't wrap their heads around that. But, it is a different kind of giving that is from the heart.
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100 baht now , if they realize they can earn money on this foreigners have to pay 500 baht tomorrow.
I don't go to Doi Inthanon any longer either due to the charge. But once compared to the grandeur of, say, Mount Rainier, there is nothing much to see at Doi Inthanon anyway. Frost? How about 30 feet of snow? Trees? How about old growth timber. And at the entrance of Mount Rainier National Park, everyone foreigner and citizen, are charged the same. So yeah, I vote with my feet.
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The desire to bash all things Thai has yet again overridden all logic and common sense. The owner of the temple is an artist, he built it as an expression of art, his other works are to be seen in the nearby art museum. He wanted everyone to see his work so he opened it up to the public, pretty soon he became overwhelmed by the number of tourists and the cost of upkeep hence he's now charging a small admittance fee. He's overwhelmed by tourists, mostly Chinese, he's not overwhelmed by Thai nationals hence he's charging the people who are costing him most. If anybody can't see the logic and fairness of all that, feel free to bash away.
I'm not Chinese. I'm from European ancestry. It's the concept that no matter how much we contribute to Thai society, we are always nothing but Outsiders, and will always be nothing but Outsiders. Never accepted. That's simply sad, and for a professed Buddhist nation, it's counter-intuitive.
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I'll inform the Thai wife to take the White Temple off of her "Thing I Want To Do" list during our next visit to Chiang Rai which she has been planning for awhile. I live her, pay taxes, contribute more to the Thai economy that most middle class Thais, and I'm (and others like me) are treated like second rate trash. Screw them. It's not a 'real' temple anyway, but just for show. I'll leave it to the tourists.
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If you bring any weapon into your home you need to first wrap your head around your ability to take a human life (I doubt most TV member can do that), and second wrap your head around the fact that killing or injuring a Thai National even in the case of home invasion is more than likely going to land you in jail regardless if you use an arrow, piece of rebar, machete, kitchen knife, hammer, rock, or whatever (and I doubt that most TV member are willing to go to jail to protect themselves and family by using lethal force). So your only other alternative is for you, and possibly your family, to become the prey of your attackers in a home invasion and hope the best you survive (I'm not willing to do that).
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As an avid skier for the better part of 50 years, I can't say I remember when the run-of-the-mill FIS racer posed in vivid red lip-stick. And I've know a lot of racers both male and female. Haven't seen that before. Lip gloss. Yeah, I even wear that. But than again, 30 years ago I didn't see various body piercing and tats. Just an observation. Maybe something is changing. Who knows. I gotta find some video of her running the GS. Entertaining no doubt.
https://youtu.be/YWCtI_XJ-fw
I've seen worse. She wouldn't make the US or Canadian FIS teams any more than I would, but.....Cool Runnings comes to mind. I'd enjoy skiing with her recreationally. Probably be quite fun. -
"Heartland" Americans are just sick and tired of PC Politics. Trump isn't PC. What he turns into if he attains the Oval Office. I'm not optimistic. Probably same, same, but different.
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You'd have a better bet betting on the most decrepit nag at a local Thai race track than make a bet for a 'truce'. Good luck with that. Game's back on as soon as everyone has their logistics straighten out. Probably sooner.
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They be too busy restocking supplies from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to fight.
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Wait 'till they find out they can't wear make up (unless it's camo) ...maybe that's the plan.... scary katoey with no make up...enemies will be running just at the mere sight....(hope the enemy keeps his valuables on a chain by the way)
I think I'd rather have an unmodified katoey covering my flank (poor choice of words), errr in my foxhole (still not good wording). Oh heck. A chick with lot of testosterone will still build muscle and can't kick the crap out of most women, and once bulked up, a lot of men. Just saying.
But gals in the field? Not so much. But if GI Jane can keep up, why not. But she should meet the same physical standards as a man. A motivate Katoey would have no problem.
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How to treat 'katoey'
Like a girl with a deep voice. Myself and my family don't care. Not my cup of tea, but whatever make one happy. That's a true conservative view.
"But you sound like a liberal?"
Nope. I have no problem with Katoeys, but if Bob down the street does, that's Bob's business. I don't support laws dictating that Bob has to think the way I do.
"You a LBGT Hater!!!"
Nope. Go to the top of my post and read the first sentence. Good luck.
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The RNC just blinked first.