This is Fishwrap (after a day out for medical checks) for All Saint's Day of 2024.
The government is well aware that business groups today are facing economic problems and obstacles in this world of rapid change. Scratchy voiced Paethongtarn Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand from her IG platform Ingshin21 while taking a day off to recover from exhaustion. Details at: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/politics/40042837
The (former) Brooklyn Dodgers whomped the New York Yankees once again, sweeping the World Serious by 4 gamers to nil -- and that, in Yankee Stadium itself. The choking Yankees were completely outplayed, including the worst fielding inning in Yankees history of 121 years and 7 months. But hey, Aaron Judge hit a home run, so he wasn't eligible for the A-Rod Award to the most-failed player of the delightfully short four-game series. Read all about it: https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-2024 Some very short videos: https://www.mlb.com/stories/game/775296
The Friday Morning Joke Achtung! Caution! This joke is groanably punny.
THE DEAD DUCK A woman brings a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon.
As she lays her beloved pet duck on the table, the vet puts his stethoscope to the bird's chest and listens carefully.
A moment later the vet shakes his head and says sadly, "I'm really sorry ma'am, but your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."
The woman becomes quite distressed and begins to cry.
"Are you sure?" she says with tears flooding from her eyes.
"Yes mam, I am sure" the vet responds. "Your duck is definitely dead."
"But how can you be so sure?" the woman protests. "I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything have you? Perhaps he's just stunned or in a coma or something."
The vet rolls his eyes, then turns around and leaves the room.
A few minutes later he returns with a black Labrador retriever.
As the duck's owner looks on in amazement, the Labrador stands on his hind legs, puts his front paws on the examination table and sniffs around the duck from top to bottom. He then looks up at the vet with sad eyes and shakes his head.
The vet pats the dog on the head and takes it out of the room.
A few minutes later the vet returns with a cat. The cat jumps on the table and delicately sniffs at the bird from its head to its feet. After a moment the cat looks up, shakes its head, meows softly and strolls out of the room.
The vet looks at the woman and says, "Look ma'am I'm really sorry, but as I said before, this is most definitely a duck that is no longer of this world. Your duck is dead."
The vet then turns to his computer terminal, hits a few keys and produces a bill, which he hands to the woman.
The duck's owner, still in shock, looks at the bill and sees it is $150.
"$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!" she shrieks with incredulity
The vet shrugs his shoulders and says, "I'm sorry ma'am. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20. However, with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150." (h/t TNDeplorable)
THAILAND OPINION by Veera Prateepchaikul, life-time reporter of Thai politics, former editor Bangkok Post There are 'No Tak Bai Miracles' to deliver needed justice Last Thursday, October 25 was the end of the 20-year statute of limitations in the Tak Bai case. For this appalling case of multiple deaths, no one ever will be held responsible. When criminal courts met in Narathiwat and Pattani provinces in the far south, none of the indicted 14 army, police or senior civilian officials even bothered to show up. Some of them, including former Pheu Thai Party MP four-star General Pisal Wattanawongkiri have fled overseas to exile. Pisal was the commander of the Fourth Army Region, and this responsible overall for the killings of nearly 100. https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2891241/
EDITORIAL LABOUR Thailand has numerous job categories for which no foreigners, as well as many selected citizens can be hired. Recent mass arrests of more than 2,000 undocumented foreign workers -- including 1,289 Myanmar nationals, along with Cambodians, Lao, Vietnamese and others have highlighted this "problem" of foreigners taking jobs reserved for Thai nationals. With an increasing labour shortage and heightened competition in various sectors, the country must assess how best to balance local employment opportunities with the undoubtable need for foreign labour. https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2891246/
Nevada Election Officials: ‘We Don't Need No Stinkin' Postmarks!' The swing state's Democratic secretary of state wants unmarked mail-in ballots to be counted until the Friday after the election -- November 8. National Review (U.S.) https://shorturl.at/XREPR
USA POLITICS ILLEGAL VOTING Ann Arbor, MICHIGAN American authorities arrested a Chinese student, 19, and charged him with voting illegally and perjury. He walked up to a voting place on Saturday and registered to vote, a felony in several ways. He used a University of Michigan ID card to show he was in the America legally -- but later asked to get his vote back because he his not a U.S. citizen and faces four years in the hoosegow. Election "officials" are unable to retrieve his illegal ballot and his vote will count in Tuesday's election, so-o pretty easy. Detroit News: https://shorturl.at/I19Ty
 Redux The only garbage I see floating out there is Trump's supporters. Joseph Biden, president, U.S.A.
As the far right continues its rise in Europe, authorities are increasingly confiscating party drugs embellished with Nazi symbols. Full Details https://t.ly/iMZCx
And now back to News
Famous within Thailand as a site of a royal palace, Hua Hin is eyeing a path as a world-class tourist destination. Hua Hin has experienced rapid economic and social growth. The municipality covers an area of 86.36 square kilometrers and comprises two sub-districts: Hua Hin and Nong Kae, with a registered joint population of 62,454. E:\comm\upload\stationhuahit01.jpg PHOTO: Modest railway station, built when there were no highways. Four hours from Bangkok, the Hua Hin stop is popular.
Young, rich, influential and downright Nutty. Thailand's social media leaders have a dark side.
PHOTO: Nutty and her Mum Thaniya were finally extradited from Indonesia. Nutty, full name Nuttamon Kongjak is 31, and along with Mum was a full-time social media influencer. They have been charged with fraud and conspiracy for allegedly cheating more than 6,500 people out of more than two billion Thai baht in their Ponzi "investment" scheme. https://shorturl.at/RNkNB
ENTERTAINMENT TV GEEKS CONSPIRACY Now that you're back, what are you doing? Thanks for asking. Every day at 5 we-all decline to get inside the mad Bangkok jam, so we gather in the somewhat luxurious Fishwrap Break Room here in our Nong Bon HQ and we watch one of the 13 episodes of the splendid Vince Gilligan-Fox production The Lone Gunmen (cq). https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lone_gunmen Long story short: It's the prequel to X-Files. A trio of computer nerds later featured on The X-Files discover a plot by Big Government and Huge Business to crash a jetliner into the New York World Trade Center for (reasons different from Osama's which came six months after this show..
The best line, so far: Ladies and gentlemen, we're experiencing some difficulies up here. Please return to your seats and kiss your asses good-bye.
