[Awaiting arrest, ex-Prime Minister Thaksin returns to Thailand amidst political unrest]

I suspect that shortly after he is imprisoned, there will be an amnesty, the conditions of which will manage to include him and he will be out in short order..

[Choice is the Republican Debate or Trump interview]

There is a slight possibility you might hear something truthful from someone if you watch the debate.

[Move Forward party ready join the opposition]

The Amendment change bringing in numerous unelected MP's a few years back, almost guaranteed a hung parliament or one which eventually slides back under the military umbrella. The peoples will matters little.

[Trump wants to execute people who engage in human trafficking.]

If its the death penalty for human trafficking, what suitably righteous punishment can Donald expect when he is indicted and found guilty of treason one wonders?

[“Not giving up” - Pita, “Peter Mack had a heart attack”, huh?! : Tim Newton Today - July 14]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

lawyers for suspects in the murder of Hans Peter Mack in Pattaya suggest he may have "had a heart attack",

Probably should add to that statement "whilst being beaten to death."

Can't see a judge believing it was a natural coincidence somehow.

[Biden denies being present for Hunter’s alleged texts to a Chinese business partner]

Just now, Neeranam said:

Not it isn't.

While "Not it isn't" in itself is not actually a sentence, least not in English anyway, it does though have the interesting aspect of the use of a double negative, with the not and the isn't cancelling each other out, to effectively become Yes it is, meaning you agree with my sentiment all the time.

As in "I ain't done nothing", means you have done something, A Freudian slip perhaps, when you say or write what your brain is really thinking, not what you meant to say.

[Biden denies being present for Hunter’s alleged texts to a Chinese business partner]

Just now, Neeranam said:

Are you saying Trump isn't a billionaire?

Difficult to know really. He proclaims to be one, but then he proclaims many things, the majority of which are totally false. I mean, he has told more confirmed lies than just about any politician in history and continues to do so. Sure, his supporters are throwing loads of money to keep him afloat, which if he were indeed as super rich as he proclaims he wouldn't need and could tell them to keep it for themselves.

Over half of Americans and an overwhelming majority of Europeans have worked out he is completely untrustworthy and if not financially, most definitely morally bankrupt, which makes it really amazing that a hard core bunch of folk can't see the wood for the trees on the matter.

[Pattaya Motorbike Taxi Driver Returns Lost Bag Containing Nearly 100,000 Baht to Foreigner]

It's nice to hear of honesty here, though I will be much happier when the stories of theft and fraud don't outnumber such stories ten to one or more.

[BREAKING: Hunter Biden reaches deal with Justice Department to plead guilty to three federal charges]

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Nothing out of the ordinary about a high official getting a good deal for his loser kid. We can't honestly believe a president's son to be treated the same as any of our kids. We need to drop this and focus on the Big Guy.

That has to be one of the most laughably inaccurate and ill informed posts I have ever read.

Biden allowed the Trump appointed Attorney General to stay in office (highly unusual), rather than ask him to resign and appoint a new one, precisely because he did not want to be involved, or even be seen to be involved with the case. So much for getting his kid a good deal, and I would love to hear your single shred of actual evidence to the contrary, though we all know you can't. Rhetoric and evidence are different by the way, which I mention as you don't seem to be able to differentiate between them.

This had zero to do with daddy and his influence and everything to do with the law being allowed to operate freely and impartially.

Years of highly politicized trawling for more serious crimes have found absolutely nothing against either father or son.

Meanwhile the charges Trump already faces, not to mention the whole load more coming soon are so much more serious and supported by overwhelming evidence, I find it difficult to understand how anyone without absolute blinkered vision and an inability to work out very basic truth from obvious slander can stand by and think he is a viable candidate for the most important post in the world.

Trump is the absolute loser, along with the morons still unable to work out what he is, or see through his continuous litany of deceit and lies.

[‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War]

Just now, rattlesnake said:

"Your previous claim:

"My point is that Trump was allowed to have these documents under the PRA.

Still waiting for you to back that up?"

 

I am claiming he was allowed to retain the documents because they are not classified but "contain classified markings" based on what I have read. I also believe the media are portraying things in a way which is purposely unfavourable to Trump.

 

I am giving my strictly personal opinion, inferences and interpretations based on original documents which I have linked above.

 

I know you disagree with me, what I am telling you is that time will tell, and if I am wrong, I will say "I was wrong".

You are absolutely wrong. Trump was allowed zero of those documents under the PRA, a very simple fact. Upon termination of his period, EVERY single document becomes the possession of the archives, secret, classified or mundane.

Its not hard to understand. You need to be blinkered or of sub par intelligence for that fact not to sink in.

A jury of his peers, made up of Democrats and Republicans listened to the evidence and decided to indict Trump.

Nothing to do with Biden, or the DOJ, just normal folk listening to the truth and making a decision based on that.

Stop listening to right wing spin and start to look for the truth and reality and these facts will become VERY apparent to you, though most Republicans seem to prefer to look for loopholes and "whaboutism" on much debunked and baseless mud slinging garbage to deflect from the truth.

Basic fact reiterated. Trump could not have one single document that belongs to the archives, secret, declassified or not.

You are wrong. Not even close to right. Spouting garbage even.

[ABC, CBS and NBC newscasts ignore alleged Biden bribery scheme, spend hours on Trump: Report]

They spent time on the Trump story because it was based on fact, and ignored the Biden story as baseless garbage.

One is a criminal which is recognised by about 60% of Americans, and his transgressions are newsworthy.

The other has zero evidence of any wrongdoing against him, despite years of republicans searching for some.

Given most Republicans can't even be bothered to read the indictment against Trump, which would enlighten them, any garbage they spout against anyone else isn't worth even listening to. 99% of all their grievances are already debunked garbage, only kept alive by their moronic pursuit of something, anything on a Democrat to save their beloved cult leader, who gives not one toss about any of them.

Moronic statements about politically weaponized DOJ, when the indictment came from a grand jury of democrat AND republican jury members who listened to the actual evidence, all the waffle from Republicans is just that, waffle. Not based in truth, but truth deflecting rubbish sucked in by the mindless base.

Raise the IQ level necessary to be able to vote to a meager 90, and the country would turn totally blue at an election.

Some people are just way too stupid to be allowed to vote, as evidenced by the moronic goings on in the States,

You actually need to know the facts, all of them, not just the one sided hyperbole dished out by biased media before you can actually make an educated decision. Republicans don't make educated statements, they make emotional ones, based on a wing and a prayer, that they think they need to say to keep votes, and to hell with the truth and their moral conscience.

[Thai Royalists Gather at US Embassy, Petition US to Stop Intervening with Thai Politics]

Thai politics are always fun when the Government lose, but is of course when they normally resort to cheating by banning or dissolving parties. One suggestion the CIA were in cahoots with move forward and that will be all the justification these scumbags need to kick another legitimately elected party out. We have seen it many times and you have to know that Prayut wants move forward gone, it is just a question of what "legitimacy" they use. Thais will know, the world will know, but if it keeps them in power, they are highly likely to do it again.

[NY grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, sources tell CNN]

A jury will ultimately decide if the charges are warranted.

The time for declaring these charges are political will come after their verdict.

Anything postured before is simply theorizing and attempting to influence public thinking.

Personally, I "think" he is probably guilty, of this and much more, but will sit back and allow the evidence to speak for itself.

I sometimes wonder though how many times his supporters will see the light right in front of them and still not see it.

With half of them he could forcibly sodomize the Pope, and if not struck down by lightning on the spot, consider the Pope was secretly funding the Democrats and therefore deserved it. Tucker Carlson could present that one well.

Blindness is not only due to sight, but blocking things you don't like out of what might actually be reality.

Don't see him going to jail on any of the charges.

Can't see him getting within 20 million votes of the winning post in a general election if Republicans are dumb enough to stick him forward though

Landslide slaughter across the houses..

God help us all if that is the best the party can find.

DeSantis is distasteful and out of touch with reality, but he doesn't seem to have as many skeletons in the closet as Don.

Gotta hope the Republicans can get their act together before they get whooped worse than Rodney King.

 

[Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and the in-fighting at Fox News]

13 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Is "Goebblesesque" a legitimate adjective?

I don't see it in my comment, and will have to consult Rooster and his scrabble dictionary to know if your "goebblesesque" question is even a word.

My spell check suggests not.

Do you have any constructive criticism to offer on my post in actual aspects of it?

The FOX crew have seemingly being telling the truth under oath and something entirely different to their audience, or can you tell us all how the two somehow blend into reality?

 

[Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and the in-fighting at Fox News]

I always knew that one day the truth behind the FOX inexplicable tirade of blatant lies would be revealed.

I didn't realise when it came it would be so overwhelming and thorough.

Trump needs to shoulder much of the blame for starting wild fictional conspiracies, but these FOX presenters/lying dirtbags for dollars, should also be facing criminal charges. They alone have whipped up millions of mindless right wing conspiracy believing morons into thinking there was some substance to what was obviously lies to anyone with a decent IQ.

And they knew it was all lies, and told it anyway, night after night. It's almost treasonous.

 

[Two bomb disposal team members die, one injured in Narathiwat]

An insensitive and not in the slightest bit funny troll post has been removed.

[Arrest imminent in case of murder of woman by "security guard" in central Thailand]

A couple of posts bringing race/religion into a topic where neither have any place have been removed.

Please stick to the topic under discussion and leave such nastiness out thanks.

OK, and a couple more posts have gone too. Off topic, name calling, drivel has additionally been removed.

["Abandoned Company"]

Do not take this as solid legal advice, because it is not. It is just my experience having had something similar.

Once a company has filed no returns of any kind for a certain period, (was 3 years, might have changed), the company is generally considered dead for all intents and purposes, unless financial transactions have been happening on the company bank accounts.

If nothing like that has happened, you should be able to just turn a blind eye to it and the authorities generally will too.

This is Thailand though, where unusual stuff can come at you out of thin air.

I would advise getting an accountant or lawyer to make discrete inquiries to ensure it is indeed dead.

 

[Waifs and Strays]

Were you in Pattaya, I know exactly where to direct you, but I don't have the same contacts in Bangkok.

I will send you by PM the number of a wonderful person in Pattaya, from the Hand 2 Hand Foundation as she might be able to give you the right advice and direction.

Good luck with it and good on you for caring.

[Only Prayut, Prawit and Paetongtarn can realistically gun for PM post]

If you have 25% on your side already, you only need about 20% of the general vote to cross the line, thus the 250 permanent members decide the PM and the public have essentially nothing to do with it, aside from some bickering amongst the also rans about the fairness of the system.

[Swedish tourist arrested for wandering on Pattaya Beach with a loaded gun and crystal meth]

A reported troll post has been removed, along with a post which is targeting another poster, rather than the topic supposed to be under discussion.

Forum rules are very clear.

You may disagree all you like with anothers view, but you will address the point made, not make comments about the poster, their intellect or anything else in any way demeaning.

 

[Polish man arrested on Samui Island with canceled student visa, 36 days of overstay, and an Interpol red notice for assault]

A troll post and reply have been removed.

Please discuss the topic and refrain from making snide personal comments.

[Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital]

A reported troll post from an individual without the "mental capacity" to understand forum rules has been removed.

[Halloween horror! Ladyboy electrocuted after night out - police investigating in Chiang Mai]

A number of posts in poor taste have been removed, along with righteous and unrighteous replies..

It is not funny when people are electrocuted, even less so when they die.

This forum expects a little bit of decency and respect for the dead.

It might be more appropriate to be questioning how such a fence came to be and what if any warnings were posted along its length.

[Southeast Asia’s largest Indian restaurant opens in Pattaya]

I had hoped to see a post from someone who had actually been there.

The majority of Indian places are stupidly overpriced, with quality not necessarily assured.

Indian spice shops on Soi 17 off 2nd road are very well stocked and inexpensive, so there is no reason for an Indian chicken dish to be 3, 4 5 times the price of a Thai dish with same amount of meat. On par, or slightly higher would be fair.

I play for the Pattaya Indian badminton team, (honorary spot, being English but speaking one dialect having worked there),

800 seating does seem optimistic, unless they are offering something substantially better than the normal I have found locally to date.

EDIT: My team tell me it is a failed restaurant opening under a new name. Old non vintage wine in a new bottle with a new label was the comment, but none of my team view it as somewhere they would go to eat.

Tourists will probable be bussed in for commissions, but the local Indians aren't interested it seems.