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He said this case would be handled separately with the killing and mutilating of the body of Mr Shimato.

Oh goodie, does that mean we can look forward to another photo op with the murderers apologizing to the spirit of Mr. Shimato, complete with flowers and som tam? Or, after 11 years maybe not necessary anymore...

No worries. It's not even a culture shock, more like a culture pinprick...

strange fruit

no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed. Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract.

it is so hard to contract that mostly doctors and nurses seem to catch it in the west...

Thailand has returned to normal and is ready to welcome back foreign victims and prey.

"I don't know if the Prime Minister meant Pheu Thai Party when he mentioned an underground movement," Somkid said

...actually he said bowel movement, and yes, he meant Pheu Thai Party.

Diamond Head and Waikiki view from Ala Moana Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii

"I don't know if the Prime Minister meant Pheu Thai Party when he mentioned an underground movement," Somkid said. "If he does, I'd like to assure him not to worry. Please relax ... I'd like the government to continue their administration of the nation.

Well, then in that case Pheu Thai Party just admitted that it has no purpose nor function...disband yourself.

receding forehead combined with a receding chin and hamster cheeks makes his head look like a tennis ball. Advice to Tarit: try to avoid presenting your profile, lest someone will take a racket to your head by mistake.

nothing to worry, Thailand is just missing out on an inactive post, they have plenty of those at home.

‘No. The cat won’t be destroyed. It will be sent off for retirement.’

inactive post...officials and tigers, same same

"However, applying for a seat means competition. We lost the competition but the support we obtained accounted for about 70-80 per cent of UN members, meaning many countries still trust and believe in us."

...down from how many countries in the period 2010-2013, when Thailand did win a seat?

Earlier this month Thai Immigration Police discovered he was on the island, living in Plus Condominium in Kathu. They alerted the Russian authorities, who cancelled his passport on October 13, allowing him to be arrested for being in Thailand illegally

why not cancel his passport in April when he skipped the country?

I once went to the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi. There was an even mix of foreign and Thai visitors, however, I noticed that none of the Thai would got near a tiger, only the foreigners would go close up and touch the animal. So I thought, the Thais lived together with tigers in their country for a long time, maybe they know a thing or two about them...and so I declined the monk's offer to hug the beast.

Thailand's image needs restoring by Farangs on Buffaloes...do they have a work permit for that restoration job?

Inside Diamond Head crater, Oahu, Hawaii

a Thai face in Paris

"The country is now back to normal," he pointed out.

define 'normal'...

As an amateur philosopher I've pondered that aspects humanity are not on a continuum but very distinctly stratified.

I draw much of this from TV posts.

I'm not sure about that.

A relevant example might be delusions of racial or ethnic superiority. Superficially, we might think that people are either afflicted with them or not.

But there is a continuum involved: people hold with these types of views to various degrees, some quite extreme, while the wiser amongst us might have been able to just about move on from them all together.

So the more I refrain from posting, the wiser I appear...

...but if I refrain, then you wouldn't know about my apparent sagacity...

a paradox for sure, wonder if there is an equation to define this self-defeating conundrum