Calgary hockey players scouting out golf courses
Please... everybody... don't make me raise my voice again. It is a clear-sky Sunday and it is a cool-ish 83 American degrees in downtown Nong Bon.
Tweet and you shall...
The Criminal Court sentenced a 36-year-old man to 5 years in prison, without suspension, for a tweet and parallel Facebook post urging sexual assault upon the twin daughters of 'prime minister' Prayut Chan-o-cha.
The man pleaded that it wasn't him, someone hacked Twitter and Facebook. The judges scoffed.
PHOTO: Taken as the man was transported to court.
https://www.thailandnews.co/2022/05/man-imprisoned-for-5-years-for-urging-harm-to-prayuts-twin-daughters-via-tweet/
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
Covid-19 isn't going away. Here are the stats for the 24 hours of Saturday, May 28.
In brief:
4,488 new cases
38 deaths, including 2 children and 1 foreigner
46,734 active cases
3,921 recovered
Thailand #Pride Parade scheduled for next Sunday
The nation's first junta-approved parade will traverse Silom Road in Bangkok, supposedly to raise issues of sexual inequality, social injustice and same-sex marriage.
It has been designated one of the 12 festivals of Bangkok.
True story: Organisers said that although Thailand is a haven for LGBTQ groups, in reality, there is still social pressure that prevents these people from expressing their identities in public.
Until next Sunday, anyhow.
The parade will start at Maha Uma Devi Temple on Pan Road at about 4 p.m.
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/bangkok-pride-parade-to-be-held-on-silom-road-on-june-5th/
THAILAND MONKEYPOX
Thailand still has not seen a case of monkeypox but the junta is (pretending to) Be Prepared.
Health Department officials are begging the China-owned World Health Organization aka WHO for few pickup truck-loads of smallpox vaccine. Which normally makes monkeypox go away.
In order to appear busy, junta-loyal "health experts" advised all Thais and tourists "to be extra cautious when gathering in crowded public places to avoid infections". Although mass outbreaks of anal sex is unusual, even in crowded places.
https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220527135100020
THAILAND DRUGS TRAFFICKING
Police on an overnight shift tried to flag down a Honda City car in Chumphon province, southern Thailand.
The driver hit the accelerator, the cops gave chase, and within 5 minutes, the target car slipped on the wet asphalt and crashed into a tree.
Police grabbed two men from the car, opened the trunk, and found two million methampetamine tablets, neatly bagged for export.
PHOTO: A large bag in the truck of the car contained 2 million meth pills, bagged for export.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2317070/
Not by coincidence, the 4th Army headquarters in the deep South explained that an attack and arson on a small Royal Thai Marine station was committed by drug smugglers and their protective gangs.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2317122/
The Department of Say What? says:
Without a single biologist to help, the U.S. Mint can still tell what a woman is. And boasts about it. Designs for 2022 American Women Quarters™ Program Coins
"... the Mint will issue five quarters in each of these years. The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts."
https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-announces-designs-for-2022-american-women-quarters-program-coins
Economic pressures have government mulling end of Covid restrictions
Thailand's junta aims to remove remaining Covid restrictions by the beginning of July as economic pressures and inflation pushes forward.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/40464/economic-pressures-has-government-mulling-end-of-restrictions/
By not-a-coincidence, Thailand's now-infamous Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has issued warnings to every nightlife-entertainment establishment in the country - pubs, bars, karaoke bars, massage parlors, etc etc etc.
The CCSA has announced it will allow some entertainment and nightliife to open in some parts of 31 (out of 77) provinces in July.
The warning from the marvelously fit former Miss Thailand and assistant CCSA spokesfemale Dr. Apisamai Srirangsan says all establishments must follow the Covid-free measures (papers, masks, etc) and must close by midnight. Also, no promotions.
PHOTO: Follow her orders or pay the price.
https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220527142128048
U.S.A. ECONOMY BABY FORMULA
There is a shortage of bad news, and The Machina is working overtime to create more.
For the week ending May 22, the out-of-stock rate for baby formula rose to 70% nationwide, according to recent data by retail data firm Datasembly. In the previous week, it was 45%. In April it was 30%.
https://datasembly.com/news/out-of-stock-rate-in-april-2022-copy/
The New Space Race: Going Where Man Has Never Gone Before.
China targets permanently shadowed regions at lunar south pole.
"The Chang'e-7 mission, expected to launch in 2024 or 2025, will consist of multiple spacecraft including an orbiter, relay satellite, lander, rover and 'mini flying detector.'
Searching for water ice in a permanently shadowed region (PSR) is noted as a major mission objective.”
https://spacenews.com/china-targets-permanently-shadowed-regions-at-lunar-south-pole/
SUNDAY READ
Our Killing School
C. Bradley Thompson, a self-admitted pointy-head and currently professor at Clemson University: Our Killing School. You know what the #1 common factor in school shootings is? Schools.
Brad's three-part and readable essay begins here:
Yeah, actually it is.
Netflix Airs Ricky Gervais' Controversial Standup, Chooses Actual Entertaining Over Woke Pandering.
Although
Mary Carr of The A.V. Club is shocked, shocked that a comedy show is, um, showing. No, correction, it is not shocking it is unconscionable.
https://www.avclub.com/ricky-gervais-netflix-transphobic-special-1848969071
At the young-adult website Vox, someone named Aja Romano notes that Netflix is "ust fine inflicting bigoted hateful rhetoric on its subscribers." If only there were some way to avoid it, right?
As a Netflix policy statement put it,
If you'd find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.
In case one in a million readers has two poops to give, I watched Gervais' SuperNature and enjoyed it.
The Daily Beast website admits it lies, misled misinformed, disinformed, covered up and prevaricated in its story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
And it's really, you know, sorry, eh?
But they're getting their ass sued anyhow, along with the lying CNN and the prevaricating Politico. Good background, with links at
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/the-daily-beast-is-sorry.php
Shall we do some facts?
This pathetic excuse of an oxygen-waster is... get this...
He can't write. He can't edit. He can't research. He can't say to one of his secretaries, "Bunny honey, go and look up 'AR-15' for me and photocopy the article." Lord alone knows why he has reporters.
Your choice (Please Select only one):
o Equally Stupid
o A bit more stupid
Quick Debunk
You did no such thing. "We" cannot buy guns. You do not show the FFL you used. You do not mention submission of your age and other proof needed for a criminal background check. You forgot to mention, and then to show, your completed Form 4473. No Safeway clerk ever asked for my NIC clearance.
Say this for Zach. He seems unashamed to be male.
SPORTS
https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/57740864
Calgary players looking for a golf course
https://ggle.io/59D8
