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I've been wanting to see Re-cycle. It's actually Chinese/Thai, but it's by the Pang brothers, who usually make outstanding movies.

I bet there are some pissed-off people in Thailand today. PHNOM PENH — Cambodia said Wednesday it had appointed fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra economic adviser to premier Hun Sen in a move that adds to tensions between the countries. The appointment was announced on state television almost two weeks after Hun Sen first riled Thailand by offering safe haven to Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 and is living abroad to avoid a jail term for corruption. "Thaksin has already been appointed by royal decree... as personal adviser to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the adviser to the Cambodian government in charge of economy," said a government statement read on television. "Allowing Thaksin to stay in Cambodia is virtuous behaviour...good friends need to help each other in difficult circumstances," it added.

A third person arrested, but still not clear whether the people involved actually made a profit. However, this story says Thai investigators are looking into "possible stock trading irregularities." BANGKOK, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Police in Thailand said on Wednesday they had arrested a third person on suspicion of spreading rumours about the health of the country's 81-year-old king that triggered a slide in stock prices. Somjet Itthiworakul, a 38-year-old snooker club owner who also organises trips to border casinos, was arrested late on Tuesday in Chon Buri province, 100 km (62 miles) east of Bangkok, after posting comments on Thai website Prachatai. More

That will be necessary for the junta to gain any sort of credibility with its own people and the rest of the world.

OK, I'm probably the last person in the States to see the show The Office, but I just got around to it this weekend. It's frickin' hilarious...anybody else watching this online or on DVD?

Man, of all the places for them to pick to commit crimes, why the hell would they go to China? I wonder if they understand exactly what they were risking. And I wonder if any of them will ever see daylight again.

That's basically what I was thinking. Besides, I think for our generation, hating GWB will never get old, just like hating Nixon never got old for a generation before us.

I think it's gone way beyond that. It's time for criminal charges. And, unless there is some great explanation that was not included in this story, then probably some people within the various school district administrations should lose their jobs.

Hahahaha...well said.

I watch it online.

LMAO...you got that exactly right!

I was having trouble formatting messages (crazy fonts/sizes, words squeezing together when they shouldn't, etc) but it turned out to be a setting I had changed in my profile.

You might want to give the first X-Men another viewing...Rogue was a child and Wolverine a grown man. She might have had a little-girl crush on him, but he made it quite clear that it wasn't going to happen. The only relationship that developed between them was big brother-little sister, not romantic. That would have just been creepy. Wolverine's love interest in the movie was Jean Grey.

That's a good way to put it in perspective...shows just how creepy this marriage is.

Good thing I forgot to buy candy...apparently, no kids trick-or-treat in this neighborhood.

It's not a tactic used by "radical gay people." It is, in fact, a fairly mainstream sentiment, which is why the Ted Haggard/Mark Foley/Larry Craig scandals got so much coverage in the media and became fodder for late-night talk show hosts.

That's a little scary.

The item has been removed from eBay. I bet those were bogus bids that drove it up so high. Good. Now the police won't get anything from this.

I would imagine that the Justice and State departments are pressing the Swiss very hard behind the scenes to prevent him being released on bail at all. He's too much of a flight risk (obviously) while still outside the US. Once he's on American soil, it may be a different story. He'd probably have to surrender his passport and wouldn't be allowed to travel by commercial or private plane, but I bet he will get some kind of bail.

Several years ago, I got drunk and stupid and had unprotected sex with a woman I didn't know. Let me tell you, I spent a nervous six months waiting to make sure all my test results came back negative. I still occasionally get paranoid and ask my doctor for a test, for the exact reason mentioned in the post above.

Tell me I'm not the only immature one who got a laugh out of this line. I've never been to Oregon but have always had such a good impression of the state because of socially progressive communities like this. By contrast, did you guys hear about the city manager of Largo, Florida who was fired a couple of years ago when he decided to undergo a sex change? The city tried to claim that it would be a "distraction" to other city workers. She eventually became Susan Stanton and was hired earlier this year as the city manager for Lake Worth, Florida. I know the decision was entirely up to her, but I was flabbergasted when she announced that she was not going to sue her former employers. If anyone deserved it, it was that backwards ass city council.

I have mixed feelings about things like this. On the one hand, it's good that governments take steps to help ensure that people are given every opportunity to make informed decisions that are in their own best interests. On the other hand, it always makes me uncomfortable when the government gets involved in protecting us from ourselves, whether it is through the "war on drugs," helmet and seatbelt laws, or requirements like this that set rules for what people are allowed to do to their own bodies. Here's an example: I live on the Gulf of Mexico, where the waters can be fairly dangerous during storms. When the water gets rough, the county flies double red flags on the beach to warn people not to go in (the county won't pay for lifeguards, even though we are a major tourist destination). Inevitably, people go in the water despite the flags, or because they're tourists and don't know what they mean. Last year, we had 10 people drown in a two-month period because they went into the water when it was dangerous. Instead of adding lifeguards, or doing a better job educating tourists about the flags, or even moving the flags so they could be seen better, the county decided to pass an ordinance authorizing the sheriff's department to give tickets to people who swim when the double reds are up. Now, the deputies patrol the beach handing out tickets to anyone swimming when the surf gets rough. It seems to me that, at some point, you just have to let people do what they are going to do and stop trying to protect them from their own decisions. But, that said, I'm all for regulations that help people get all the information they possibly could need to help them make good decisions.

I guess this really puts Democratic and Republican bickering into perspective...I was surprised by this because I thought Thailand was at least advanced enough to have violence-free elections. BANGKOK — About half of Thailand's national lawmakers are taking advantage of a new government plan allowing them to purchase guns at a discount and receive a license to carry them anywhere, an official said Monday. Election campaigns in Thailand's rural areas are sometimes violent, and most campaigns are marked by several deaths, usually of vote canvassers who buy votes for their candidates. The new program was arranged at the request of lawmakers, said Pranee Siridhammakun of the Interior Ministry's Provincial Administration Department. More

Sorry. Forgot this link to the rest of the story.

This really came down to the wire...he's been holding out in Canada for 13 years. Just 9 more months, and the statute of limitations would have expired and he would have been protected from extradition. BANGKOK — A fugitive former adviser to a Thai bank whose failure caused a crisis of confidence that helped spark the 1997 Asian financial meltdown arrived Friday night in Bangkok after his extradition from Canada. Rakesh Saxena, 57, had staged one of the longest extradition battles in Canadian history to avoid being sent back to face charges he helped embezzle $88 million from the Bangkok Bank of Commerce, which collapsed in 1995. The bank had about $3 billion in bad debt when it was shut down. More