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America will continue to lead

American leadership is the one constant

America is leading the world

American leadership is not confined

America is leading the fight

America is engaging

America will do what it takes

Dear Mr. Obama, you just got an "F" for style in your statement.

The wheels of the train jumped off the tracks but did not flip over, he said.

Then it performed a Triple Axel with the dining car tucked, followed by a backflip, then curtsy and bow. However the train scored only 6.3 points (2.1, 2.1, 2.1) from the South Korean judges.

Malaysia’s Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry secretary-general, Datuk Seri Hasan Malek told The Sun Daily, “The ministry will continue to keep a close watch on the company and will arrest its founder, Zhang Jian, the moment he shows up.”

"But we will be really secretive and sly about this strategy, so he doesn't suspect anything before we collectively pounce on him", Hasan Malek added, "because we are not stupid!"

The moment someone chooses voluntarily to deny another human the right to exist, for self-gratification, or sport, or to promote some ideology, that's the moment when that someone forfeits his own humanity and becomes a creature of the same level as a parasite or a virus. There are no excuses, no mitigating circumstances, no future redemption. This creature needs to be exterminated. Period.

So when "we" hang the wrong person, who will hang us?

My advice to you: Don't hang the wrong person...instead, kill the right creature.

yep and thats where the argument for the death penalty falls down,, you cannot guarantee that the law always gets it right..

I am not arguing pro or con of death penalty. What I am proposing is, as I have stated above, that anyone who commits a crime like this has voluntarily given up his/her own humanity and therefore should not be accorded human considerations anymore. It's philosophical, not judicial.

well, it seems like I gone go against the opinion of a lot of people here .. but for me I think death sentence should be the the last option, meaning in case someone doesn't cure better, or do bad things again. This guy is 22 years old, did something very wrong, maybe under influence of drugs, (and I'm not sure I understand good, didn't confess) ...

its not the first time in the world someone get the death penalty being innocent.

Everyone can do something wrong, (the one that never did , raise his hand), everyone should have a second chance .. if he sit in a thai prison for 20 year .. I think he will well clearly been punished for his mistake.

further on .. I hope we live in a civilized society, A bad and sad think happen, a court valuate and punish that person, and we must hope we(and he) all learn out of it.

When I hear a lot of reactions, like "rot in hell scumbag" and some feel happy because someone gets death penalty ... I feel like I live between a lot of judges with the mind of someone from Islamic state.

Lets all try to be civilized , let that judge make the right decision, and let not lower our selfs .. I hope I am not the only one with this opinion.

The moment someone chooses voluntarily to deny another human the right to exist, for self-gratification, or sport, or to promote some ideology, that's the moment when that someone forfeits his own humanity and becomes a creature of the same level as a parasite or a virus. There are no excuses, no mitigating circumstances, no future redemption. This creature needs to be exterminated. Period.

So when "we" hang the wrong person, who will hang us?

My advice to you: Don't hang the wrong person...instead, kill the right creature.

Thailand mulls ID wristbands, curfews for tourists

makes sense. It's so much harder to establish a competent, dedicated and reliable police force - that's totally unmullable!...No Thai mulling expert would be found to even remotely mull this about.

Yonhap omitted one more guideline in it's reporting:

Do not eat your mobile, even if it has an apple logo. It is not nutritious.

no credence to the rumors that there were mafia in operation on the island...Koh Tao Island itself remains vibrant and healthy...confidence in the security and general safety of the island...island remains one of the favored destinations for both local and foreign tourists...

...no mafia on a vibrant, healthy, favorite tourist destination...ok...

The soldiers came from the Third Calvary Battalion and executed martial law

Time-warped Roman soldiers crucified Martial Law. It died without a sound.

If you do go, khun Ban, bring some cheese!

Just speculating that someone in Airport Immigration tipped off the Taliban about this guy.

Now waiting for the LG execs to go in there with a sledgehammer for some real product testing...

Thailand really needs to understand that the internet airs all your dirty laundry and as they are seeing now it makes a real impact on where people choose to holiday,

I think they understand very well, that's why the government blocked access to foreign news websites, so that Thai people can't read what the world is thinking of Thailand. It is important to the government that Thai people continue to live in a fantasy, not reality.

Koh Tao thug's wristband manual:

First you get yourself a wristband, then you get yourself a drunk tourist, then you take him/her to his/her hotel room, then you do what you want.

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