Demons and devils and spooks OH MY!

If these people aren't totally crazy, they aren't anything...

Demons and devils and spooks, oh my!

Queen of Heaven? Axis of Evil? Prophecy chants? Demon strongholds? Generational curses?

What are these people, spiritualists, animists or something? The whole belief system reminds me of the superstition common to primitive cultures or those held in thrall by a paternalistic religious structure...

Oh, wait. That's it.

My bad.

This is what happens

when unbridled greed meets hereditary power. Allow me to introduce the reigning heads of the lovely country of Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit:



From the Guardian:

Not content with lese-majeste laws to protect the revered monarchy that are among the world's most draconian, Thailand is to build a wall around the kingdom to keep out detractors.

But the barrier will be virtual, a national internet firewall to block websites deemed insulting to the throne of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who at 80 is the world's longest serving monarch.

For the princely sum of almost £9m the Thai information ministry will shield the king and his adoring subjects from the sleights – real or perceived – of those who mock online.

Thailand's government, locked in a bitter struggle with staunchly royalist demonstrators who have been on the streets for months, has been accused of harbouring republican tendencies and being hostile to the monarchy.

It refutes the charge, but the move to construct the firewall appears to be the result of pressure from the powerful military and its demand that criticism of the monarchy be stamped out.

The firewall will also give Thailand's bureaucrats the power to block other websites it labels inappropriate, like those run by perceived terrorist groups or showing pornography. But the first target will up to 1,000 websites suspected of carrying material regarded as offensive to the king.

Last year the government, which was appointed by the military after a coup in 2006, blocked the YouTube website for weeks after its parent company, Google, refused to take down a posting.

The 44-second clip showed a picture of the Thai king with a pair of women's feet suspended above his head. In Thai culture feet are regarded as dirty and the lowest part of the body.

Thailand's lese-majeste laws are harsh by any standard, promising 15 years imprisonment for anyone who "insults, defames or threatens" the royal family.

But the law allows anyone to make an accusation against anyone else, with the result that it is often abused to ensnare rivals.

The Thai prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, has ordered police to be especially vigilant and special branch are monitoring community radio stations suspected of airing lese majeste content.

Thailand is a mess. Making sense of the political and social scene has become almost impossible. Who's doing what to whom and why? Who knows? There is some kind of hooha going on between the Thai military and the Cambodian military on their mutual border but what the aim of this battle for an ancient temple might be? Nobody, including the Cambodian forces, can figure it out. The Thais aren't telling, either.*

IMO, those two royals are scary looking. Maybe they reflect an internal rot spreading through their country?

* Background information: Preah Vihear Temple

Swedish Chef, the chicken and Pigs in Space

ROFL

This next one gets me laughing so hard I always have tears running down my cheeks!




Then there's the frog legs...



The loobstur:



Another fish course:



Meatballs!



Spaghetti!



A soup course:



Fowl:



Breakfast selection for your perusal:



How about some dessert?



Some speecy-spicy chili juice?



Salad shooters...

I just love how Brits handle annyances

From the Guardian:

Public loos go down the pan

Why don't we see that kind of editorial here? Darn...

Yeah, another "WTF???"

Doing battle against the Queen of Heaven. Ok, suuuuuuuuure:

Ana Mendez and her "task force"

and what in the world kind of rational bitch could they have with the Amish?

You Just Can't Make This Shit UP!!!!!

Wackaloons? Crazed and delusional? Insane? Lala Land? White cots and padded cell territory?

Oh, yeah, these people just keep getting stupider and stupider and stupider. This from NPR:

"Holy Highway"

This isn't even funny. There is no way something this completely delusional could be funny. It's not even pathetic. It's just plain, old damned stupid.

They seem to be living in the middle ages, superstition rampant, paralyzed by fear of the unknown or unknowable? What possesses them to give themselves over to such foolishness?

This just make no sense at all. Absolutely none. It is so far beyond the pale of rational, responsible adult thought processes that I have no vocabulary to describe it. I mean, really! How can people be that stupid and live?