Planes v.s. Birds

Another BRILLIANT display of Thai government. I’m sure that in a rush to get their graft from the new Bangkok airport, the Suvanabhumi Airport, they didn’t think twice about the fact that the location of this airport is in the frickin’ bird migration path! And now they’re making it sound like the birds are the problem that they have to deal with. No shit, sherlock. You put a frelling airport on a bird sanctuary. A resounding duh from Thai citizens. I’m sure an international protest will soon follow....
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RIP Reagan and my childhood

Yesterday I watched most of both memorial service for President Reagan in DC and the evening ceremony in Simi Valley. I’ve been tearing up all day starting from Margaret Thatcher’s speech. I actually shed some tears when President Bush choked up and when the bagpipe played “Amazing Grace”. I lost it completely when Nancy Reagan went up to say goodbye one last time. It’s hard to imagine what she has been through all these years, watching her beloved husband drifted away. It’s even harder to imagine going through all of these emotional ordeal in the eyes of the whole world....
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