The dog is Tongdaeng, an adopted stray, "is praised for her loyalty and obedience, has been used to outline [the king's] vision of how Thais should behave." There's an animated movie about Tongdaeng that's #2 at the Thai box office.
Meanwhile, as long as we're talking about Thailand:
"If you buy prawns or shrimp from Thailand, you will be buying the produce of slave labor," Aidan McQuade, director of Anti-Slavery International [said].....
U.S. customs records show the shrimp made its way into the supply chains of major U.S. food stores and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Whole Foods, Dollar General and Petco, along with restaurants such as Red Lobster and Olive Garden. It also entered the supply chains of some of America's best-known seafood brands and pet foods, including Chicken of the Sea and Fancy Feast....
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I see Whole Foods in on the list. I went into a Madison Hy-Vee yesterday. Shrimp is on-sale -- "Product of Thailand"
Sign of things to come here. Anti-hate speech + animal rights + safe space for Progs = prosecution of anti-Prog witches. Campus protests are a warm-up.
I'm a big believer in free expression, but it looks like a very nice doggy, so maybe prosecution is warranted. The Obamas have nothing to worry about, because their dogs are delightful and beyond criticism.
If no one had said anything, the King could have been merciful. But as we've made a thing out of it, he'll have to do the full 37 years so that the King doesn't lose face. Or at least that's what I remember from The King and I.
Slaves need jobs too!
Who needs pay with free room and board...
The King of Siam
I'd have thought Bhumibol would be more of a cat guy.
He just better not say anything about Zeus, or he will meet up with Nina, the Althouse Blog foreign operative, sent out under cover as a mild mannered gourmet tourist.
""If you buy prawns or shrimp from Thailand, you will be buying the produce of slave labor,"
Ah, that explains the iPhone backorder.
We don't have any laws against mocking kings' dogs, so why aren't our papers printing what was posted?
"If you buy prawns or shrimp from Thailand, you will be buying the produce of slave labor"
I think we should start a # campaign. Mayeb #noslaveshrimps or something. I mean it worked getting those young girls back right?
For the same reasons those same papers always refer to "the Prophet Mohammed" but never "the Lord Jesus Christ": paternalistic deference to what they secretly perceive as an inferior culture.
Prawns are overrated.
Wow. How did I not know there had been a military coup in Thailand last year?
"Rocketeer said...
For the same reasons those same papers always refer to "the Prophet Mohammed" but never "the Lord Jesus Christ": paternalistic deference to what they secretly perceive as an inferior culture.
12/15/15, 4:21 PM"
To be fair, "Jesus Christ" is sufficiently precise that you know who they're talking about. There are 150 Million people in the world named Mohammed. So the descriptor could just be for clarity. As long as they don't add "peace be upon him" after.
"Wow. How did I not know there had been a military coup in Thailand last year?"
Military coups have been a routine occurrence since the 1932 overthrow of the absolute monarchy system. The government went through a phase of pretty nasty nationalism that was in vogue in the 1940s. This prompted renaming the country Thailand from Siam and engaging on a long process of the Thaification of its ethnically diverse population, especially the Isan people of the northeast who are more culturally related to Laos than Thailand. The king is nearly universally revered in Thailand; he is a unifying symbol for Thailand and has been a major force for stability over the decades. Unfortunately, he is in failing health and a post-Bhumibol Thailand is in the near future. The heir to the throne is head in far less esteem than his father. He has had several failed marriages with dubious "commoners" and has been involved in several nasty tabloid stories. Les mejestes laws keep publications running such stories off the shelves in the stores, and a China-like firewall attempts to block online articles. But the system is quite porous, and the information easily percolates. I suspect Thailand is in for major trouble. It is divided among an elite, monarchist, mostly ethnically Chinese power base in Bnagkok and a populist politics among the poorer, more rural north and south of the country. Whenever national elections return results that the ruling elite do not like, they simply ignore them and waste little time coming up with some trumped up charge to justify overthrowing and dissolving the government. The current leader of the coup, General Prayut Chan-o-cha is quite an oddball who regularly make pronouncements on astrological events and the uses of hexes against him. For all of the hedonism and debauchery that is popularly associated with Bangkok and Thailand more generally, it is an overwhelmingly conservative, superstitious, and primitive society.
clint,
Well then, how about if we settle on "the alleged prophet Mohammed"?
So the Thais are using slave labor. I presume they learned that from the Chinese, who are infamous for using slave labor camps under control of the PLA to produce commercial goods for export to the US and other markets.
When do we start the boycott of Chinese goods?
I started to read the slave/shrimp story until i got to the names of the investigative organization. No...just no.
I had been using "the so-called prophet" but I like Kirk's "alleged".
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