'Coup' sparks Thailand emergency
POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 13:43
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Originally posted by citizen:
Someone tried to sell an Aircraft carrier on ebay.
Surplus Nuclear Subs anyone?Chrisisall
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Far as I know, the E-bay auction was a joke/hoax, but that bein said - there WAS a surplus aircraft carrier sold off to a collective of private interests who wanted to turn it into a bizarre cruise line, dunno how that one panned out.
America sells a lot of surplus too, but it's usually in such piss poor shape nobody wants it.
There are also some homes built out of old silos, for the interested, nuke not included.
You'd be amazed at what can be bought on the free market - I wouldn't mind owning a German aircooled WWII diesel armored car, run that puppy on biodiesel and you got the all-time "end of the world" cruiser, a'la Damnation Alley, heh.
Still, I dun have a problem with such things being out there, cause A.E Van Vogt made that point pretty clear.
"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
-From: The weapon shops of Isher.
-Frem
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My opinion on this is that it's bad. Not as bad as it could end up, but still not right.
I'm actually in the middle of a pseudo debate with some guy over whether Thai military rule is better than a civilian democracy. Yar!
I only hope that it remains bloodless and that democracy is soon restored. As much as I can't stand GWB, I can't say that I'd be excited if a military group decided to overthrow him because they didn't like how things were being run.
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The way I heard it, the seller was for real, but the deal was not allowed to go through. I think the seller didn't technically own the item
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Thailand has always been a peaceful country, first time I heard of internal turmoil.
COUP? We have this on a weekly basis.
Every time our president makes a speech on TV, some militant persona gets assasinated.
Price for press freedom here is death. We have 200+ unsolved cases, where militant and press people tend to disappear and reappear dead.
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Mine was a reference to Phuket
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Originally posted by Windstruck:
Thailand has always been a peaceful country, first time I heard of internal turmoil.
Coups are a national sport in Thailand:
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The revolution of 1973 inaugurated a brief, unstable period of democracy, with military rule being reimposed after a bloody coup in 1976. For most of the 1980s, Thailand was ruled by Prem, a democratically-inclined strongman who restored parliamentary politics. Thereafter the country remained a democracy apart from a brief period of military rule from 1991 to 1992. The populist Thai Rak Thai party, led by prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, governed from 2001 until the 2006 coup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Thailand_since_1973
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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Originally posted by Sassalicious:
My opinion on this is that it's bad. Not as bad as it could end up, but still not right.
I'm actually in the middle of a pseudo debate with some guy over whether Thai military rule is better than a civilian democracy. Yar!
I only hope that it remains bloodless and that democracy is soon restored. As much as I can't stand GWB, I can't say that I'd be excited if a military group decided to overthrow him because they didn't like how things were being run.
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Wisconsin sucks. I don't want to be here.
~Forsaken Forever
The beauty of it is, we wouldn't need the military if we could all get off our collective arses and get Congress to impeach ol Dubya. If wishes were horses we'd be eating steak huh?
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"there WAS a surplus aircraft carrier sold off to a collective of private interests who wanted to turn it into a bizarre cruise line, dunno how that one panned out."
I have visions - hot-sheet bunks, cold sea-water showers, everyone does duty in the engine room ...
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evaps that don't work.
Lovely
stinky men in a stinky boat
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