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#5337645 G&M Sausage Restuarant

Posted hml367 on Yesterday, 06:46

View Posttrainman34014, on 2012-05-27 21:54:54, said:

View Postelektrified, on 2012-05-27 20:50:51, said:

I'm sure you are not talking about the place behind Big C since there is no temple there.

No; it's the one out in the sticks, it's actually in the locality of Doi Saket.

I have been to this location on several occasions, although it has been a while, and never disappointed with the food or service.

MSPain


#5339463 US Embassy Bangkok Complained Over Lady Gaga's Fake Rolex Tweet

Posted SgtPepper on Yesterday, 17:48

Bet you that you can buy pirated Lady Gaga CDs.


#5338019 Thai Law Voiding Verdicts To Be Tabled

Posted animatic on Yesterday, 09:53

View Postgand, on Yesterday, 09:42 , said:

View Postanimatic, on Yesterday, 09:16 , said:

View Postkerryk, on 2012-05-26 21:27:54, said:

View Postbigbamboo, on 2012-05-26 21:10:10, said:

It is difficult to see how any judicial system which has laws retrospectively changed years later to exonerate selected individuals cannot be considered to be compromised..... even in a 'miracle year'.
I guess you are correct but when were coups made legal?
Coups seem to take the place of impeachment and conviction,
in a land where they never have the balls to make the laws strong enough
to remove thieves and brigands from the top offices.

If coups are accepted by the society as a whole,
and not just decried by the losers only, then they are a part
of what society accepts, and thus not illegitimate.

With 19 of them, so far, it seems to be a relief valve for a particular type
of societal disfunction, in a society not used to functioning as the rest of
the world expects it should.

Not saying this is good or that it always works well,
but this appears to be how it functions here,
because it does NOT function normally, and never has the last 80 years.
Why; is a doctoral thesis of massive proportions.

Clearly some sociological / philosophical differentiation from the west is
even greater here that the rest of Asia. We can bemoan it, but only slow,
gradual time will change it. In this case the young, learning of the better way,
accepting it over time, and the old dinosaurs dying off and being replaced
by modern thinkers.

Laws such as this proposal can only be seen as a death-throe of the old ways,
trying to claw back for one more shot, and likely the pendulum will swing back
the other way soon. We still have far too many dinosaurs and junior dinos in power.

Was Thaksin staying as PM after he was not approved not a coup as well? How would removing someone holding the PM office illegally be an illegal coup? Was the 2010 riots a failed illegal coup attempt?
A very good point.

Thaksin had resigned, after not being renewed as failed Acting PM,
because he screwed up the snap election. The Election commission on
the way to jail, for apparent collusion with his party no less.

His term as acting PM had expired.
He was not renewed, his Deputy PM became officially Acting PM
He unilaterally took back the Acting PM job, and called himself PM.

a week after he PUBLICLY RESIGNED. Saying " The country needs me."
but he NEVER returned to the palace for confirmation, likely sure he would be turned down,
or published his position in The Royal Gazzette as constitutionally required.


There was the obviously faked attempt to blow him up,
and create an SOE or martial law, which specifically was talked of.

Then he paraded himself at the UN as Thaliands Prime MInister,
when he legally was not.  Something had to give;
Either his ego or something more forceful.

The 2009 and 2010 riots were blatant attempts at a coup from the street.
Obviously with hopes that water-mellon Army and police would stand up
to the other side if enough deaths occurred.
And now the whitewash of it all.


#5337861 Thai Law Voiding Verdicts To Be Tabled

Posted Buchholz on Yesterday, 08:45

View PostOzMick, on Yesterday, 06:16 , said:

View Postpastitche, on 2012-05-27 23:43:36, said:


In Thailand it already requires that an MP must be a graduate, that has never been the case in most real democracies


I also believe that the requirement for an MP to be a graduate has been dropped.


Correct.

Just for the record, that requirement under the wonderful 1997 Constitution's Article 107(3) was not included in the evil 2007 Constitution.

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#5332590 Thai Cabinet Members 'Good People': Prem

Posted Crushdepth on 2012-05-26 08:14:46

Damning with faint praise.


#5316530 Red Shirts Call For Justice

Posted Siripon on 2012-05-20 14:49:30

Last night,the fiery speeches of the red shirts  calling for justice and investigation of the deaths at Rachaprasong contrasted sharply with Thaksin's call for reconciliation and to accept what happened.
In other words Thaksin's feels the red shirts have served their purpose, some died, well that was necessary to swing Thai\ world opinion, and besides their families are getting a massive 7.4 million baht in compensation. Plus further probes could find all sorts of nasty things: possibilities such as stolen army rifles being used by black shirts, renegade soldiers  working for the UDD, so PLEASE STOP ANY FURTHER INVESTIGATION,
Let's just forget what happened so long as Thaksin can come home- that's all that matters for one of the world's greatest liars.


#5267341 Thai Air Force Plane Skids Off Bangladesh Runway

Posted Payboy on 2012-05-02 10:43:56

View PostLucidLucifer, on 2012-05-02 10:37:44, said:

I have a sneaking suspicion that more than just the right wing was damaged.

I bet the RTAF laundry has found several skid marks on the pilots uniforms. :rolleyes:


#5266999 House Speaker Pushes For TV Coverage Of Thai Charter-Change Debate

Posted Pseudolus on 2012-05-02 07:56:09

Should be fun then; I wonder if they will have to show a warning about sexual images, scenes of drunkenness, violence and abusive language prior to broadcast ....


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#5266260 'Harassed' Airport Red Shirts Pressure Pheu Thai For Help

Posted Buchholz on 2012-05-01 20:45:25

View PostEyesWideOpen, on 2012-05-01 19:10:42, said:

View Postotherstuff1957, on 2012-05-01 14:06:07, said:

There have been issues with the parking lot concession at Swampy since before it was open.  Does anyone remember this:

http://www.nationmul...l_18113079.html

A Thai businessman claimed that a sister of PM Thaksin demanded a bribe of 48 million baht to give him the Suvarnarnabhumi parking concession & then gave it to someone else!

I remember that story, and it came to mind when this thread started. The version I recall is that he said he handed the money over to Thaksin's wife. Gotta love the Nation version of the story, she is referred to as a " relative"... :-)


Just to clarify, I did find the thread and it wasn't the wife.

It was a sister that was embroiled in the bribery at the airport scandal.

It was the lesser known and less public Yaowaret Shinawatra:

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Thaksin's Sister Accused Of Kickbacks

http://www.thaivisa....ks/#entry411444

Nittinun Keskosin, managing director of Rush Fur Thai Co Ltd, who talks about how his company was promised the contract if he paid 25 million baht to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's sister Yaowaret.

"Mrs Yaowaret and a politician demanded 300 million baht in `commission' to secure a 25-year parking service contract for the new Suvarnabhumi airport.

"They promised future assistance for the company to win a furniture contract worth more than one billion baht,"' Mr Nittinun says.

Mr Nittinun said he had paid 25 million baht to the pair in two installments; five million in August 2003 and 20 million in September of the same year; and had promised to pay the remaining 275, once his business won the contract.

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This parking lot at the airport issue has its beginnings an astounding nine years back. Posted Image

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#5265587 Thai Commerce Ministry: Business Closure In Q1/2012 Nearly Doubled From 2011

Posted Thai at Heart on 2012-05-01 16:28:23

Minimum wage increase wasn't in effect in Q1 was it?  Closures from flood effects infinitely more likely.


#5264935 Rice Pledging Scheme Drives Out Thai Businesses

Posted AleG on 2012-05-01 11:48:01

View PostRicardo, on 2012-05-01 09:33:33, said:

....
So PM-Yingluck may find herself in the unfortunate position, of buying-high and selling-low, and squandering taxpayers-money on both stages of the transaction, to keep happy the PTP-supporting millers and also the poor-voters.
...

I don't think she'll care too much about squandering tax money, the Shinawatra clan is notorious for it's propensity to not pay taxes.
It's other people's money.


#5255078 Transport Ministry To Proceed With The Construction Of High-Speed Train

Posted apetley on 2012-04-27 20:43:57

View PostTheCure, on 2012-04-27 18:47:43, said:

And yet, despite all your hatred for him, the fact is that the only Thai politician who has delivered a high speed train line to the Thai people is Thaksin : The ARL.

Less than 20 miles of track at a speed of less than 100mph to a station that seems deliberately designed to inconvenience passengers hardly seems something to boast about.

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#5221959 Bkk Airport To Pattaya

Posted NanLaew on 2012-04-16 07:42:28

View PostShurup, on 2012-04-16 07:06:44, said:

I've take a bus from BKK to Pattaya a few times, never again. It takes 3x longer to get there as it stops everywhere along the way to pick up and drop off the passengers, then when you arrive to Pattaya bus terminal, you need to get a taxi to get to your hotel (or motorbike if you travel light).
All in all, if it's not some sort of express bus, it's not worth it in my opinion, takes too long and save too litle.
Just because you have consistently taken the wrong bus, don't expect everyone else to do the same.


#5258352 Dating Muslima

Posted Naam on 2012-04-29 05:01:19

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The 'people of the book' are Jewish people
wrong! the expression هل الكتاب‎ covers Christians too. the Qr'an refers several times to Jews, Christians and Sabians as "people of the book".


#5239471 Dating Muslima

Posted Naam on 2012-04-22 06:08:32

View Postnotmyself, on 2012-04-18 18:14:12, said:

If something is unfalsifiable, a truth value is meaningless. An example of which would be stating that I have an invisible pink leprechaun called Colin living in my shed.
so that's where Colin lives now? i was worried that something bad happened to him when he disappeared.




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