unit731

Secondhand Lions. The two main characters - the two old guys - remind me of some on this board ! Old and cranky - but with a heart of gold !

http://youtu.be/TqtoUFW5svQ

There will be riots in the streets if there is not enough women.

No Escape “After trailers for the film were released a social uproar occurred in Cambodia over the use of upside down Khmer lettering on the police shields. The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has since prohibited the film from being shown in Cambodia. Sin Chanchaya, director of the Department of Film said that the decision to ban the film had come solely based on the trailer. Chanchaya said that the Ministry had approached the film producers to edit the lettering out of the film but they had not replied by the time of the decision.†LINK Filmed in Thailand.

THAI HOUSE INN Somewhere off Soi 7 not far from German Beer Garden. Apparently this long time Bangkok hotel destination is now kaput. What happened?

Preparing for your next trip? Well, there is one group that will help you determine the list of items that will be needed. “Also on the list are makeup, boots and a bra. The bottom of the list, seemingly in different handwriting to the top, lists the logistics and costs to Turkey, and then across to the border with Syria. These sums include money for visas, a coach, a hotel for one or two nights, a taxi and some extra cash.†LINK

World War III I clearly remember when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot. And we all know what happened after that. “Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border. The circumstances that led to this are in dispute. The Turks say that they brought the aircraft down after it ignored warnings and repeatedly violated Turkish airspace. They say their F-16 jets were scrambled and brought down the plane with a missile strike.†LINK

“Van Dyke fired 16 rounds at McDonald in about 14 seconds and was reloading when another officer told him to hold his fire, prosecutors said in bond court.†LINK

"I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here! “… Your winnings, sir.†“Oh, thank you very much!†Adult men in this hotel? Across the street from one of Bangkok's nightlife areas? Good Lord ! I have seen European families with small children stay at the Nana Hotel. They seemed oblivious to the night life. And appeared to enjoy Bangkok. And as I have stated multiple times here. Friday night meeting with board members. One prominent on this board. He stated multiple times that the Nana Hotel was not the better place to stay in Bangkok. Next morning at the included buffet breakfast . . . there he is slithering in through the side door . . . coming for breakfast . . . wait for it . . . at the Nana Hotel.

Paris attacks: Isil mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in the St-Denis raid, prosecutors confirm - live Police fired 5,000 munitions as two suspects were killed including the ringleader of the terror attack in Paris, prosecutors confirm. LINK

"Trump was delivering a speech in Worcester, and mentioned that America now had over 50 million people on food stamps. At this point a heckler began chanting against Trump and was quickly dragged out of the building. While crowd members chanted “We need Trump!†to drown out the heckler, Trump decided to poke fun at the man’s somewhat above-average weight. “You know, it’s amazing, I mention food stamps and that guy who’s seriously overweight just starts going crazy,†he said, sending the crowd into a burst of laughter. Trump’s quip was captured by MSNBC and later uploaded to YouTube:" LINK

Thank you. The Canadians do it a tad better as far as the date goes. Thanksgiving Day in Canada - Time and Date Time and Date Loading...Thanksgiving Day in Canada has been a holiday on the second Monday of ... Mon, Oct 12, 2015, Thanksgiving Day, National holiday, All except NB, NL, NS, PE. "Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October each year and it's an official statutory holiday - except in PEI, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - however federally regulated institutions do observe Thanksgiving in those provinces too. In the US thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November." LINK

A tad out of context but: Viewed the Movie THE HANGOVER PART ii. Just to view the scenes of Thailand. And I did get a few laughs and a few things that I have forgotten about Thailand. Long before the massive incursion of the 7-11 stores. After an arduous night of entertainment. Got up and sought out some ordinary soda to take back to hotel. Wandered along Sukhumvit seeking a can or bottle of cold soda to take back to hotel. Finally found a stand with one guy just selling soda. In bottles. Can't take bottles. No matter how many baht I offered - no take bottle. So off I walked with two clear sandwich baggies each full of orange soda/grape soda. Fanta. I thought that this was a tad odd. Walking along Sukhumvit with two baggies of soda pop. And in the movie Hangover Part 2 - there is a brief scene of two of the actors walking along a street in Bangkok - each with a baggie of soda pop. Some of the writers or the director of this movie must have been to Bangkok on holiday to truly grasp the life of a visiting/tourist 'farang'.

This is a sad day for Paris and all of France. Latest is that the borders have been closed. A very sad day indeed for all of the innocent only out for a nice Autumn evening.

A tad light on reality - Hillary. Yes, they would have grabbed her is a split second. Just another story. She and Ben at times do live in a fantasy land. Dr. Ben got a "scholarship" to West Point. But turned it down. Why make up such sh*t. Something about the military that some fantasize about looking back when they avoided the military at all costs.

"The United States on Thursday carried out an airstrike in Syria targeting the Islamic State militant best known as "Jihadi John," who participated in gruesome videos of the killings of American and British hostages, officials said. The Pentagon said it was still evaluating the effectiveness of the strike in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State. His real name was Mohammed Emwazi, and he was a British citizen and computer-programing graduate, hailing from a well-to-do London family.†LINK

Gotta just love those Republican candidates for US president. Here is one of the front runners. "My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain," LINK “Specific questions have come up about Carson’s latest claims that he once went after his mother with a hammer and how at age 14 he stabbed another young man while arguing over a radio — the young man was identified as a classmate named “Bob†in Carson’s 1990 biography Gifted Hands, though he now claims that was a pseudonym meant to protect the identity of a relative.†LINK What type of voter supports and believes this stuff?

“Thousands of desperate Rohingya, currently adrift in the Andaman Sea, highlight the plight of a persecuted, stateless minority looking for a better life;†LINK

“George Will’s Thursday attack on Bill O’Reilly is not really about Ronald Reagan’s presidency. It is an opening salvo in a fight for control of the Republican Party. In a blistering op-ed—an op-ed, mind you, not a book review—Will savaged the newest book in O’Reilly’s killing series: Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault that Changed a Presidency. Will loathed O’Reilly’s contention that John Hinckley’s assassination attempt started Reagan’s descent into dementia only 70 days into his presidency. But that questioning of Reagan’s mental capacity is not what’s at the heart of Will’s attack on O’Reilly. What’s really going on is that establishment Republicans want to cut the extremists away from the party. It may be too late. Will’s criticism of Killing Reagan indicts O’Reilly for, well, making shit up.†LINK

Yes, but . . . if that was the case . . . about half of the board members here would have been shot a long time ago.

Almost a third of 6,000 federal prisoners scheduled to be freed between Friday and Tuesday, part of a push to reduce America's soaring incarceration rate, will immediately be turned over to U.S. immigration authorities for deportation proceedings. LINK

“CLINTON >> Austin Haughwout, who made headlines for building a gun-firing drone, was arrested by Clinton police Wednesday night after he allegedly assaulted two officers.†LINK

Metamucil. But beyond that. There was a question of where the airplane was when child born. Whose airspace? “According to the China Post, the Civil Aeronautics Administration have confirmed that the baby's nationality will depend upon the birth certificate issued by the Anchorage hospital as she was born in U.S. airspace aboard a Republic of China carrier.†LINK The airline charging for the cost of an extra seat - well, was a joke !

Then there is the citizenship question. Where exactly was this child born?

Wait, they are not done yet. "As the House Select Committee gears up to spend up to more than $ 3 million on another investigation into the tragedy in Benghazi, the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee just completed and is about to release an exhaustive, nearly two year investigation that found no deliberate wrongdoing by the Administration. This report exonerating the Administration of wrongdoing is one of many investigations into the tragedy. There have already been seven investigations, 13 hearings, 50 briefings, and 25,000 pages of documents have been released." LINK