Hello all from almost sophisticated and often envied Nong Bon, Thailand.
Where it has been supposed to rain for three days but it hasn't, and we're nott weeping about that.
RELIGION BUDDHISTS Thailand doesn't have real 'religious police' like some countries So it must depend on regular police to track and destroy infidels Serve And Protect officers of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) found six (6) senior monks who frolicked with and selfied and paid 80,000 baht to attractive young ladies of Phitsanulok province. The clergymen's story is that a certain Ms. Golf (legit name) enticed them past monastic breaking point.
This all occurred during the (very) religious start of the annual Khao Phansa, or Lent. All six are Phra Thep (angelic level). They will be disrobed and banished. The chief of the provincial monastery has fled into hiding. All feelthy photos were confiscated.
Gilb's Laws of Reliability (1) Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Today, I am imposing sanctions on Francesca Paola Albanese. -- Li'l Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State
Two ways to satisfy the Donald The failure to recognise what the US really wants from the reciprocal tariff is the biggest mistake of the Thai negotiating team. By Chartchai Parasuk, freelance economist Craftily, China has shifted a substantial portion of its trade surplus with the US through "transshipments" via other countries. Where "other countries" means, in English, "especially Thailand."
PANDEMIC CHINA USAID supplied thousands Of Viruses to Wuhan Biolab The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year programme. It had no formal agreement with the lab in place. USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan. It had no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.
COVID VAX It looks like the Covid jabs killed people. A lot of people. If you thought people were crazy to take the jab, you might have been onto something. Comparing Covid mRNA vaccines to all vaccines (combined) in "Proportional Reporting Ratios"... Issues like brain fog, psychosis, dementia, and even suicidal behavior were not just higher, but dozens to hundreds of times more frequent after the Covid shots. With a Load of Comments
OUT Give us your shoes to smell (U.S. airport security) 19 years IN Don't take off your shoes, you smell fine to us: 1 second Richard Reid frowns in his solitary lockup in Florence, Colorado.
Miracle Of The North Just seven years ago, the last of the 12 Moo Pa (Wild Boars) and their soccer coach was pulled out of the Tham Luang Cave in Chiang Rai province.
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Not at the very top of Our Favourite Bands... but Drainman and Ann Wilson! Are You Kidding?
Jewish Joke du Jour [trad, h/t gs] Jewish mothers exist in order to joke. So, like Chinese mothers, then? Anyways... For his birthday, a mother gives her son two ties. When she sees him again, he's wearing one of the ties. She says, "You didn't like the other one?"
Of course he did. And who could report it better than Xi-N-N? via the Taiwan News
OUT: Backpackers IN: Music and Queers
There is a Khaosan Road Business Association that is quite annoyed that • Visitors to their street are in rapid decline, mostly because • The blessed government has changed the rules on marijuana and that was the main attraction. KRBA Chairman Sanga Ruangwattankul pledged to bring in locals and foreigners alike with street boxing, gay-music groups and more Many more details at Matichon (in Thai)
On June 23 last, all U.S. embassies and consulates-general under the U.S. State Department ordered visa applicants to list all their social media accounts, and to make those accounts public, in case U.S. authorities wanted to peek at them.
This new rule annoyed some people and lit up a tiny number of non-citizens who didn't want to follow such an order. Which, viewed from the State Department and consulates was fine. Don't bother applying, then. The new rule, written personally by rookie Secretary of State Marco Rubio was 10 years and 14 dead terrorist victims in the making.
That's the bureaucracy's definition of 'fast-tracking'. A U.S. citizen and his brand-new Pakistani Islamist wife attacked civilians in San Bernardino, California. The happy couple died on the street; investigations showed that the new 90-day K-1 'fiancee visa' holder Tashfeen Malik plotted the atrocity. Post-mortem investigations showed that she pledged herself to ISIS and al-Qaeda, and her marriage was a diversion, and a sham.
The image announced that applicants for F, M, and J visas must set their social media accounts to PUBLIC. These visa categories include: F visas – for academic students. M visas – for vocational and non-academic training. J visas – for exchange visitors, researchers, educators and cultural participants.
Best Read of the Weekend AMERICA COLONIALISM 1775: A Very Good Year for a Little Revolution By Salena Zito, shoe-leather journalist In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. They were fiercely independent frontiersmen, farmers and artisans who had settled in the wilds near the forks of the Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
RE: "Thailand doesn't have real 'religious police' "
Don't forget the dogmatic and unforgiving Sangha Supreme Council of Thailand (Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Santi Asoke, etc...) who, if not taking scalps (and saffron robes) in the foreground, are always in the background...
RE: "Thailand doesn't have real 'religious police' "
Don't forget the dogmatic and unforgiving Sangha Supreme Council of Thailand (Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Santi Asoke, etc...) who, if not taking scalps (and saffron robes) in the foreground, are always in the background...