Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Price of Success – Rice Theft in Thailand

March 24, 2008 – 1:22 am

My wife’s father sleeps in a wooden hut in the middle of his rice paddies. Den didn’t grow a rice crop this year. Instead he watches over his 15 cattle worth 15,000 baht each. 225,000 bath on the hoof for the teams of cattle rustlers ranging over Thailand’s central plains to take advantage of a […]

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EVEL KNIEVEL RIP

March 23, 2008 – 11:27 pm

What can I say about Evel? In 1956 he was fired from the Anaconda Mining Company for executing a wheelie in a earth-mover, which struck a power line and thus plunged Butte, Montana into a seven hour black-out.

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4000 US Dead in Iraq 2003-2008

March 23, 2008 – 11:07 pm

Five years have passed since GW Bush ordered the US military to invade Iraq with its Coalition of the Willing. The war was won in a matter of weeks. It’s been the peace that has been so elusive and yesterday 4 US soldiers were killed in an unexpected flare of violence, pushing the fatal body […]

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Thaksin’s Return plus 24 Days

March 22, 2008 – 10:30 pm

Last month Thaksin Shinawatra returned to face corruption charges in Thailand after spending over a year and a half in luxury exile. The former prime minister has been keeping a very low profile despite his faithful followers clamoring for his ascend to power. At present he is under court orders to leave the country and […]

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Hells Angels Hit 60

March 22, 2008 – 9:35 pm

Hells Angels celebrated their 60th anniversery this Easter weekend. Legend places their founding chapter in Fontana, California, although other chapters claim later dates for the birth of the world’s most infamous motorcycle gang. Sonny Barger swears his Oakland chapter was first, while Rocky Graves from Berdoo is a fervent believer in the San Francisco clubhouse […]

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