Close the parks, get out of here!
As foretold by the Mysterious Gypsy Lady (and Wayne Gretsky) the Leafs showed up and bowed out.
Most Canadians and Torontonians were not born, the last time the Leafs won the Cup.
[My oldest child was Minus-3 years old and claims credibly that he remembers nothing.]
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/in-agonizing-game-of-inches-maple-leafs-power-play-missteps-will-sting-most/
Thailand's schools reopen for another term today. No online teaching is allowed. But barbers making the students look sharp on Monday were just like school rules: fully masked, all the time, no exceptions.
Masks are not optional.
All students (and teachers) must wear a mask from beginning to end of every shool day.
Also, all online (internet, Zoom) teaching is banned.
'Mother Nature' needs to heal
Thailand has spent a year trying to attract foreign tourists and visitors back, and now suddenly shutters three of its most attractive national parks in the South, until mid-October.
 Police and other armed guards roped off the three best-known marine parks until October 14 - Mu Ko Similan, Mu Ko Surin and Mu Ko Lanta national parks.
 All three are known and renowned for their clear water and white sands.
PHOTO: Divers are particularly fond of the clear waters places to explore.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2310422/
CORONAVIRUS
North Korea lets its cat out of the bag
The hermit nation comes clean, sort of.
 North Korea said 42 people had already died of Covid-19. Kim Jong-Un and associates ordered a fourth of total lockdown aimed at stopping the impoverished country's first confirmed Covid-19 outbreak.
 Kim Jong-Un blasted his failed Covid 'response team', which has left (so far) 1.2 million North Koreans ill with the SARS Cov-2 noval virus.
 Respected General Secretary Comrade Kim Jong-un called out the army to enforce his curfew and lockdown.
{SPOILER: A nationwide lockdown will not stop the spread of Covid-19.}
PHOTO: Kim Jong-Un inspects a Pyongyang pharmacy. The regime did not report what the Marshal Kim was searching for.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/15/n-korean-leader-sends-in-military-to-help-tackle-covid-outbreak
South Korea offers to help the North
"If North Korea responds [to our support], we will spare no medicines including Covid-19 vaccines, medical equipment and health personnel," President Yoon Suk-yeol told the National Assembly (photo below).
https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40015599
CORONAVIRUS WORLD
HMMM As you mull and search these "official" and latest (midnight on Monday) statistics think about:
The stats are from a tiny Shanghai company controlled completely by the Communist Party of China, but have become the gold standard in coronavirus damage-reporting.
There are no statistics on the SARS Cov-2 novel virus from the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea, or from Taiwan.
But they're official, right?
Related [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] North Korean Covid outbreak surges, Kim Jong Un slams pandemic response which is causing 'great upheaval in the hermit nation
[Well, to be fair, it's the LACK of response. Nice haircut, though]
 By Kim Tong-Hyung of the AP
https://bityl.co/CEfi
U.S.A. ASEAN SUMMIT THAILAND
Thumb ups for 'new era' Asean-US ties
This is not the way most people saw it but the best informed media analyst in the area believes, and publishes,
"Biden has already shown to Asean leaders that he is willing to go the extra mile to recalibrate ties."
PHOTO: Biden called and then presided over a "summit" in Washington, D.C.
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
The "good news" for Thailand is that the number of Victims-by-'Vid is not wildly out of control.
Case of the Battered army prisoner
Abdullah Isomuso, was arrested by a large Royal Thai Army groups in July, 2019, and thrown into isolation at the infamous Ingkhayutthaborihan Military Camp in Pattani province.
After two days, he was found unconscious and transferred to a hospital, where he spent 35 days before he died.
An intensive and meticulous postmortem investigation found that he probably died of oxygen deprivation.
There is no proof about how many times he was beaten by his interrogators
Legal officers of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) sealed all records of the case, and hell no you can't see them. Also, all CCTV cameras were not functioning.
Oh, almost forgot. Abdullah was detained (never arrested) by ISOC in case maybe at some future time he might be involved with separatists in the deep South.
Full story: https://prachatai.com/english/node/9828
A radical website called Uglytruth-Thailand published this illustration (below) shortly after Abdullah's death, claiming it was related to Abdullah's death in August, 2019.
 In parliament, 'Generalissimo' Prayut defended all the actions of the soldiers at Ingkhayut camp and attacked people who claimed that Abdullah Isomuso had been tortured, saying that they had "probably watched too many films". He also complained about too much emphasis on "human rights".
 Explaining the illustration, Uglytruth-Thailand claims:
 Abdullah Isomuso had been tortured by security forces at Fort Ingkhayut. Instead of water-boarding, he may well have had some kind of bag put over his head to deprive him of oxygen. He became brain-dead.
https://bityl.co/CEB9
What better way to celebrate the 8th anniversary of your military coup?
'112' refers to the Thai Criminal Code section on defamatin of the royal family.
Full report, in English
https://prachatai.com/english/node/9830
Despite the nastiness of the tweet, there is no hard evidence (yet) that this U.S. podcaster was specifically talking about Thailand. Other countries (not including his own United States) have prime ministers.
Hotel refuses to accept responsibility after a man's wife with prawn allergy nearly dies from buffet
Long story short: A dope who was allergic to prawns/shrimp took a helping of salad at the hotel's buffet. She picked up a whole shrimp and started eating it, and dropped into a near-coma. If you think that is weird, that a person allergic to prawns had no idea what a shrimp looks like, well...
https://bityl.co/CE7U
In the comments to the above story:
The Department of Only in Thailand reports
Full story: https://t.co/AgVXAKCa9Y
In case you missed it (which I'm sure many of you did)
Here's What the Buffalo Shooter's So-Called Manifesto Actually Says.
 When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old highschool and ask about me and you will hear that.
 From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist.
Yeah, well, we prefer to call you by your prisoner number.
Yes! Geez. John Lott and William Landes demonstrated and provided this 10 years ago.
Correction. Twenty-Four years ago.
Buffalo Shooter Reportedly Chose a New York Target Because of the State's Gun Control Laws.
"Reportedly". Know-Nothing attempts to teach you nothing.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/buffalo-shooter-reportedly-chose-a-new-york-target-because-of-its-gun-control-laws/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=161637
HISTORY LESSON
ON THIS DAY IN 1940:
 Two brothers named McDonald – Richard and Maurice – opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
 Ray Kroc, then a milkshake mixer salesman, became involved in 1954 and purchased the company in 1961 for $2.7 million.
On this day in 2022
WISCONSIN MIDDLE SCHOOLERS CHARGED WITH TITLE IX VIOLATION FOR USING 'INCORRECT PRONOUNS.'
 In this case, "they/them"
https://www.thecollegefix.com/middle-schoolers-charged-with-title-ix-violation-for-using-incorrect-pronouns/
Excellent Question, straight-to-the-point answer. With which you may disagree.
Why Are We In Ukraine?
[Where "We" is the U.S.A. because Thailand is totally, completely neutral.]
 From LBJ's Vietnam to Bush pere et fils' unfathomable obsession with Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Establishment's newfound fealty to the Ukraine and its roundheeled banks and politicians, and their proxy war with Russia, Americans of my generation have hardly known a moment's peace.
 And for what? No bono here: the nation's economy is shot, its infrastructure's a joke, its military can't fight, its police are hamstrung in the face of decriminalized crime, its institutions are all under assault by the demon spawn of the Frankfurt School, and its domestic tranquility has been torn asunder.
https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-why-are-we-in-ukraine/
U.S.A. PROPAGANDA
If Everything is a new 9-11 then Nothing is a new 9-11.
Washington Post: Overturning Roe Is A 9/11-Style Attack.
The daily Bezos bulletin will never admit that 9-11 was an actual, real, murderous attack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/13/roe-big-picture-fundamental-attack/
Not nice. Not nice at all. But then neither is inflation.
Inflation proves Biden has done everything wrong all at once.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2022/05/15/inflation-proves-biden-has-done-everything-wrong-all-at-once-n469508
Label Of The Week
By the grace of Obamacare, this dope was allowed to copulate, become pregnant, push a sprog though her vaginal canal and own the result.
Today, she is encouraged to wallow and whine like a Gypsy about events she created and exhorted but regrets.
Our (17-year-old) Daughter Lied to Us and Went to a Pro-Life Rally.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/05/daughter-pro-life-rally-care-and-feeding-advice.html
TECHNOLOGY
At the Top of the Tech News...
Good story, Better as a Movie
You can spend years learning to infiltrate financial systems unseen or you can just threaten to cut off people's fingers if they don't give you their password. (Bleeping Computer)
That works too.
Except that this guy is going to jail for five years for stealing tens of thousands of dollars, where the people who just made tens of billions vanish are unlikely to ever see the inside of a cell.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-thief-threatened-to-cut-mans-fingers-one-by-one-stole-34k/
Some readers may find the content of this report distressing but Cowboy Up Ferpetesake!
Yes, it's difficult, even next-to-impossible to believe, but there are still sentient humans in the world who want to own and use the very latest and supposedly greatest technology.
Including MS Windows.
This article proclaims the (very unlikely) claim that it will share:
What's new and improved in Windows 11 22H2, coming soon
Sure. Who wouldn't believe that?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/whats-new-and-improved-in-windows-11-22h2-coming-soon/
Related?
CRYPTOCURRENCY
Fake Pixelmon NFT site infects you with password-stealing malware
A fake Pixelmon NFT site entices fans with free tokens and collectibles while infecting them with malware that steals their cryptocurrency wallets.
https://bityl.co/CDot
Spoiler: The fake site is https://pixelmon.club/
Do not go there!
They had no idea at the time, but THIS is why U.S. troops and airmen worked their butts off to save Bosnia-Herzegovina.
This is the National Library of Kosovo, located in Pristina. Which, supposedly, reflects a blending of Byzantine and Islamic forms. Okay if you say so.
A recent but not new acronym
