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Does Thailand attach contracts to Thai tourists that go to the USA or Europe, in order for Thai tourists to be treated in emergency rooms? I cannot speak for Europe, but in the USA, emergency rooms are required, by USA law, to treat sick and injured people whether or not those people have any insurance. That would include Thai tourists who go to hospitals due to illness or injury. And if the Thai tourist happens to overstay their visa's while hospitalized, those Thai tourists are not treated as criminals and subject to detention or fines or blacklisting for overstay!

Interesting. I am curious why the police were looking for bugging devices and what equipment was used to locate the bugs. I have F. G. Mason Engineering Mini Probe reciever equipment that was once used to locate bugs. I think it is the MPR-5 Model. Small, compact and can tune up to 10 Ghz.

I cannot recall if there was a TV in the room the FIL was in. It was not fancy but it was decent. Clean, no mold in the bathroom. A real hospital bed that was comparable to one in the U.S. of A. and a couch that his attendant slept on (wife pays the attendant) . I have had to stay in a worse hotel room in the U.S. of A. when no other facilities were available in a back woods town. It could be that the wife was also kicking in some additional money for the private room, cause now that you mention that, I have a vague memory about her not letting him stay in one of those bay's like I described.

There are some that do get private rooms in government hospitals. My father in law is a retired police officer. When he was hospitalized 3 or 4 years ago he had a private room. We also had food delivered from somewhere to supplement the hospital food. But, I did get off the elevator on the wrong floor when visiting one day. There was a bay of perhaps 50 hospital beds that was open and with both patients and family visitors, there were 75 - 100 people in there!!

I don't know what the weather was like in 2013, up in Chiang Mai, but I do recall what I was told by a guy I used to work with in California. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed in Chiang Mai sometime in the 1960's. I don't recall if he said when in the 1960's. I do remember he said it snowed in Chiang Mai when he was there. That was back before the dreaded global warming, climate change propaganda started.

Trumpers answer is violence? I believe that most of the violence committed in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston, Philadelphia (near where I live) and the like, is not committed by "Trumpers" but by supporters of the democrat party! My wife opened a restaurant in the city of Philadelphia. During the first month it was opened, there were 5 murders within a 1 block radius of the restaurant. There were more murders elsewhere in Philadelphia. That was in 2012. And it became worse over the years. "Halfway through 2023, shootings are down and more killings are solved. But trauma persists. More than 900 people have been shot in Philadelphia so far this year, a 20% decrease compared with the same time last year, police data show. Halfway through 2023, the rate of gun violence in Philadelphia has fallen — albeit slightly. And while the moderate decline over the last six months offers some hope, it follows three of the city’s most violent years in recent memory, and the rate of shootings remains double what it was eight years ago." I bet you 1000 baht that the people that committed those shootings, do not support Trump!

I see that Sheryl has made a recommendation of a doctor already and I would heed her advice. I am curious if you have also been gaining weight as well over the last couple or more years. Your description sounds similar to a problem I had a few years ago, body aches, joint aches, fatigue etc. Another symptom was high levels of calcium in my blood stream. Eventually I was diagnosed with a hyper active parathyroid gland. After parathyroidectomy surgery, I started feeling better within a couple of days. But as I was told by my physician, it could take years before I was back to normal. Surgery was in August 2019 and I still feel some residual effects of the over active parathyroid. Look at the symptom list at this web page, scroll down to find it. https://www.hyperparathyroidmd.com/diagnosis/#:~:text=Dr. Larian will order the following laboratory tests,the chemical balance in the body) More items

I solved that by holding a trash can in front of me as I sat! I had food poisoning so bad I begged someone to shoot me. I never went to the hospital emergency room. When I think about it sometimes, I am amazed that I did not die! Now that I think about it, if I had to travel to the emergency room on my own, I would have never made it. The food poisoning occured in Santa Cruz California at a barbecue meat place.

I'm sure you already know this, but, you should take the joint of of your mouth before drinking the shake. It took me a while to figure out why mine would go out while I was drinking coffee!

Damn! I did not see this. That was bad!

Are you not from Australia? If so, you have never been required to follow Pennsylvania voting laws as I have for the about 30 years I have been here, much of which time, during an election of local and national elections, there was the possibility that I would not be able to vote at my polling place. Prior to each election I accessed the Pennsylvania government website with laws regarding legal voting and even spoke to the registrar of voters office about the legalities of voting. I know what the voting laws were, before the last presidential election. The linked article is misleading and in my personal opinion, deliberately so! Partly by conflating one issue with another issue. I was a federal agent. First year, I was trained in understanding laws applicable internationally and domestically (U.S. government laws). At the time of the 2020 election, the democrat politicians in charge of the Pennsylvania government violated voting laws as they were written at the time. The 2022 elections were after the fact and laws were different! My understanding of laws and how they are applied to individual people and business were important when individual people or a business was subject to fines of hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars. As well as when people were incarcerated in federal prisons between 1 and 7 years. My investigations and testimony was upheld by federal courts of laws. You implied I was a facist by your comments. "Conspiracy theories like this are how fascists justify fascism. Your claims are false." "Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism, fascism is placed on the far-right wing within the traditional left–right spectrum." "CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM 4 Conspiracy theories are morality tales based on archetypal narratives about right versus wrong, good versus evil. Providing “black and white” world views, they foster societal divisions between in-groups and out-groups by exacerbating intolerance against “the other” and delegitimising different voices as being part of the conspiracy. Extremist groups use conspiracy theories as a tool for recruitment and to advance their radical agendas exploiting uncertainties, fears, socioeconomic issues and mental health disorders amongst vulnerable people. In recent years, right-wing extremism has proven to be active and efficient in the dissemination of conspiracy theories aimed at targeting individuals or groups blamed to be responsible for the evil in society. Shielding the audience from the risk of being drawn into the conspiratorial labyrinth of these groups is crucial to push back the ability of conspiracy theorists in mobilising extremist action and violence." You conflated my comments about the illegal mail in voting during the 2020 presidential election with facists by making the claim about my comments about illegal voting were false! My comments about voting were based on the voting laws that were in place in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election! You implied that my comments were part of a facist conspiracy. Ergo, you implied I am a facist, and that is "a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation." Post script: I never made a claim of any election being rigged. Only that in Pennsylvania, democrat politicians violated the voting laws that were in effect at the time of the 2020 election.

Are you a citizen of the United States? I am. Are you a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania? I am. If both, have you ever had to comply with the Pennsylvania laws regarding how to vote by mail, known as "Absentee Voting", I have! At the time of the last presidential election, it was required by both the the Pennsylvania state constitution and by state law, that you had to request advance permission to vote by mail. In that request, you had to provide proof that you were the person that was requesting permission for Absentee Voting. I was required to provide my name, address, and drivers license number in that request. I also had to provide a "legitimate" reason acceptable by law, that I would be unable to vote, in person, at my local polling place. The state law also stipulated that if I were able to vote in person, I had to do so, even though I had already sent in my "Absentee Vote". Then when I, as required by law, went to vote at my local polling place, I had to advise the person working at the polls, that I had already voted by absentee ballot, and that the absentee vote made under Pennsylvania's state laws for absentee voting, needed to be invalidated and that only my vote at the polling place should be my legal vote. So, tell me, ozimoron, how is my following the Pennsylvania state constitution and Pennsylvania State voting laws, justifying facism? Tell me how this is a conspiracy theory? Also tell my why you are making comments that are bordering on slander, against me, by implying I am a fascist?

Again, you are wrong about that. The democrat party in the state of Pennsylvania violated both the constitutional requirements for voting by mail and as you may be able to guess, the democrat party is not the part of the right wing!

You are wrong about that. It happened in Pennsylvania and it swayed a presidential election.

Would a fair and open election include allowing people who are, by law, not supposed to be voting to vote in an election? Would a fair and open election allow citizens of a state (in the U.S. of A.) vote in a manner that violates both the states constitution and state laws that primarily benefits the electorate of the political party allowing the violation of the state constitution and state law?

If you were are are a real nazi, then yes. Which brings up the question, why is it that so many on the left, use nazi tactics to further their cause?

Sort of like, you are a racist! When you disagree with the leftist ideology that was taught to them in college or don't do whatever they command you to do, then you are also called a racist!

Yet, there is little to no talk about the "far left extremists" that is plaguing the western countries. I read and hear talk about the "far right extremist" and their danger to society, yet, where are the large riots by them in the news, like the other side? Where have the "far right extremists" in the western countries taken over parts of cities and declared a new country without police?

Off the topic of apocalyptical ecological disasters. There was also the dire prediction I heard spouted back when HIV/AIDS was running rampant in the gay U.S. of A. population back in the 1980's. I forget the time frame that this prediction was supposed to take place in. 10 million people a year, in the U.S. of A., will die from AIDS! I think that prediction was for the heterosexual population. Yet wikipedia (not a source I am accustomed to using) has this ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#:~:text=12 External links-,Mortality and morbidity,United States die each year.

50 Years of Failed Doomsday, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions; the So-called ‘experts’ Are 0-50 1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975 2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969) 3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000 4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980 5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030 6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070 7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast 8. 1974: Another Ice Age? 9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph) 10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent 11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link) 12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link) 13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s 14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs 15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not) 16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000 17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not) 18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is 19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy 20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024 21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018 22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013 23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World 24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’ 25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014 26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link) 27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’ 28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide 29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources 30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years 31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years 32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s 33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000 34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020 35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010 36. 2006: Super Hurricanes! 37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015 38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985 39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable 40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish 41. 1970s: Killer Bees!

My Thai language is limited, but enough to live in Thailand, if I were to do so. Several comments made by Thai's when I speak Thai, some more than once, your Thai is very good, you are the first falang speaking Thai that I can understand, you speak Thai very well. As to Thai's speaking English. A family friend who used to be a senior official in the Thai government who had to travel to other countries, needed to speak English with people who did not have English as a first language.. He does, sort of. He attended an English language class where, I think, if I recall correctly, he only needed to listen to English spoken, but was not required speak it back. His English is very difficult to understand, not only because of poor pronunciation, but very poor grammar as well. On the opposite end of the scale of a Thai speaking English, was a young woman I spoke with briefly at Chulalongkorn University, when I was taking a Thai language refresher course. After speaking with her for 5 minutes, I asked her, which of the southern states did you live in America, as she spoke with a slight southern accent I could not place, and I thought she was an American citizen. She told me she was Thai, grew up in Thailand and had never been outside of Thailand. But, you speak with a southern accent I responded. She tells me, oh, my English teacher is from Arkansas (a U.S. of A. state). He teaches English here at Chula.

I used to work in a government call center here in the U.S. of A.. With my exposure to so many people around the world, I can understand a lot of people who speak English, no matter what countries accent they have. So, I had many calls to the call center transferred to me, because the employee could not understand the accent of the person speaking English with them. How ever, there was that one guy that was transferred to me. His call was transferred to me and the employee told me, I don't know what language this guy is speaking! It took me a few seconds before I realized, he was speaking English. He had a very strong Appalachian Mountain resident accent. I managed to make it through the call and the man was satisfied with my help, but I had difficulty understanding what he was saying. I suspect that he lived in an area of the Appalachian Mountains that were once only accessible by horse, or foot, with no roads for anything else. I, during my young childhood days, used many of the same words that are in the video and text of the link below. " In fact, some say that the speech of the southern mountaineers is “pure Elizabethan English” just as Shakespeare would have spoken it. " https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-language-of-the-appalachian-holler/

Don't forget "they're"! Where's my hat? I'll leave now.

I will have to look again when I am back in Thailand. Usually, the only alkaline batteries I see just about any place selling batteries, are the Panasonic brand.

If it makes any difference, I own a Royal Thai Police baseball cap. I bought it from someone selling police equipment to RTP at Vipawadee Police station (the one at the police apartments) parking lot.