There's no sense even counting the days for the youngsters but you older people, it's nine (9) days to Amateur Night. And they said we'd never even make it through to 2025!
Hecka good rundown on all 'Countdown' places including Temple of the Dawn aka Wat Arun.
Well, it worked in 1988. Try again? Expelling drug lords at the border The last time it worked, it expelled heroin king Khun Sa back to the Golden Triangle. Now: the United Wa State Army (UWSA) has turned parts of it into a serious drug trafficking and humanitarian nightmare. No! Check that! It's a national and international disgrace. For years, the Wa Army has used bases near Thailand as springboards for their drug operations, particularly meth and their literally deadly ice. The Third Army Region (the Thai North) has urged the Wa Army to vacate those border areas. Wa drug-and-army leaders laughed.
The actual Thai Defence Minister (and deputy prime minister) Phumtham Wechayachai asserted on November 27, Mai mee phan ha. No problem. The Wa have been there for years. Mai pen rai! Never mind. The Wa drug labs killing young Thais buy their electricity from the Thai government, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). Of course Prime Minister Paethongtarn Shinawatra, better known as Ung-Ing doesn't want to discuss that.
They have a formidable force which will not be expelled with a skirmish. They call themselves United Wa State Army but it's a Chinese Communist Party-controlled vassal state.
THAILAND DRUG TRAFFICKING VAPING You should know, first Vaping, all vaping equipment, all weed-packing paraphernalia, all vaping aids are completely illegal in Thailand, and cops are not shy about enforcing this law.
A new survey by TYT (Thailand Youth Institute) has just reported that young Thai people, on average, are dropping 2,200 baht -- call in 65 loonies a month on the habit. Phatcharaphan Prachuaplap, secretary-general of TYT I'm appalled. People are struggling just to make ends meet! Children of low- and middle-income earners... their kids waste their allowance money on this... this health threat. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2924616/
GAMBLING SHOOTING COCKFIGHT Just north of Bangkok in Nakhon Pathom province, they put on a Saturday night cockfight which did not turn out well. Five men lost their bets, drew pistols and decided to take out their bad luck on the audience in general.
Luckily for the fleeing spectators, the five weren't any better at shooting than gambling and in the end -- no injuries. Cops picked up bullet shells in case they get lucky and make actual arrests.
Fun and games: The prime contest was Petch Morakot versus Pla Mor Khang Dam, with a (rough) paramutuel of 1.1 million baht -- about 32,000 bucks, not bad for a couple of tough chickens. Report, with plentiful photos: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40044379
CANADA FLIGHT AIRLINE Say this for professional Canuckian flyers: Not even once did they crash their Boeing 737 MAX and kill 200 pax. And they never will.
Canadian national Flag Carrier Air Canada is donating all its Boeing 737 MAX jets to subsidiary Air Canada Rouge, which flies mostly "leisure routes" to part of South and upper Central America and the Caribbean. If you were planning your safe Airbus A319 and A321 flight, don't act surprised when they wheel up one of those Boeing babies instead.
USA real SPORTS The Man of Steal
Ricky Henderson, greatest thief of bases in the history of the game, has died at 65. RIP. Flamboyant Ricky was a good ball player like... in the sense that Connor McDavid is good at hockey, like that Larry Bird fella was kind of good at basketball... like that Brazilian guy Whatsissname, right, Edson Arantes do Nasciment nick Pelé was all right at soccer.
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game, he said. Struth. He still holds baseball records today. Also Truth, you young'ns you got no idea (as usual) but in Ricky Henderson's day with nine (9) big-league teams, us fans actually lined up to buy tickets to see the world's greatest leadoff hitter. Lined up, we say!
A tear for the U.S. province of Colorado State flags at Half-Staff Their Rockies stink and now the Broncos get beat ... by the Raiders.
Israeli Prime Minister and Jew Benyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, who is a Jew, will not join dozens and dozens of alleged self-described world leaders at a celebration in Poland of the liberation of the very worst German Nazi death camp Auschwitz because some of the proud World Leaders want to arrest him for war crimes and alleged genocide.
1. Hong Kong - Taipei 2. Cairo - Jeddah 3. Narita (Tokyo) - Incheon (Seoul)
Did you get any of them correct?
Season's bleatings and other nonsense It looks like we are in the thick of the silly season again, otherwise known as "Jinger Ben" time (Jingle Bells to the uninitiated). Considering all the depressing news this year the festive season is actually something of a welcome break. So we might as well make the most of it especially as the coming 12 months are not likely to be a bundle of laughs.
Official New Best Mondogreen at Fishwrap It's not Rudolph, Philistine! Do you not remember lyrics? It's Olive, the Other Reindeer.
Thoughts From The Ammo Line
A week without Ammo Grrrll is like a week-long unpleasant vegan diet. [https://t.ly/JgG_L ]
The outrageous erasure of WOMEN has to stop. NOW. A tiny handful – or even a whole asylum-ful – of mentally ill hateful women-replacers are not going to erase ME. When The New York Times refers to a biological woman as a “Non-Trans Woman,” it is time to draw a line in the sand.
The Jinger Ben thing made me laugh. And it’s not because I wear Calvin Krein shirts or know people from Nepan. Well done.