Anonymous commented : Hi Roaster, Thanks for your post, it is always interesting to read your views on different matters. Yes, how right you are to regard as utopic my last post. It looks more like something out of an idealist teenager. I am not a teenager anymore and not either I am optimistic about mankind, but I can’t help looking our world like that, as an unite. Having said that, I am not so naïf not to tell the difference between what I would like it to be and what the reality is. I don’t plan to live permanently in Isarn, as I said it is not my world and I know I would never settle down, but I think I could spend reasonable small periods of time. Then I will certainly follow the advice of people like Collin. Funny enough you was mentioning bringing new skills and innovations. Let me say that I don’t know much about agriculture and farming management but I am a good observer and in my visits to my girl friend’s village I have notice what inefficient and out off date methods they use. Upset me to see people working so hard to obtain so little. I have the feeling that much could be done in order to increase quality, efficiency and crop production. There is a region in South East Spain very arid, similar to the countryside of Arizona or Texas in the States. Back in the sixties this area was among the poorest regions in Europe, a real left over. Everything sparks just with an idea, and somebody had the idea to forget about the ancient system and adopt pioneering technologies. They built big structures and cover then with plastics so that the temperature could be control, you could call it some sort of green houses. As that area is extremely dry, for watering they used a new system with tubes that delivers a drop at a time and was centrally control. As the system worked many people did the same and within some years the place totally changed. Well, to make the story short, what once was one of the poorest regions, now is one of the wealthiest. They sell the best quality products all over Europe. Problem is the locals don’t want to work the farms anymore and are the immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America the ones who do the job. If you drive in that region you won’t see any land, just miles and miles don’t stop all cover with plastics and green houses. The technology that they use these days it is the most advance, all about agronomy engineering and whole farms are totally control by computers. Everything started with just an idea. They called it miracle but it is not, it’s just an example of what will and private enterprise can do. Sorry about the length of this post. Best regards Juan

Anonymous commented : Dear all I am a thai woman and going to marry an american man. Now, my fiance is filing K-1 Visa which issued in Texas center. For now it has taken 6 months up to now but not progress yet. Anyone who has experience about K-1 Visa and have some ways to accelerate it faster ?? Please give advice ka. Thanks alot, Pen

Anonymous commented : Yes, I agree. My sister-in-law and her daughter could not even get a month US visa to visit California and Texas where her sister and cousins living. She applied twice and caused them 12,000 bahts without refund, which is her two months salary. She got so discussed with the whole things that she would never want to apply again or visit her US families. She told them to come to Thailand instead.

Anonymous commented : The questions of personal rights of privacy are bring questioned and bring contested in US courts. Recently, a homosexual couple won the court case in Texas regarding to their privacy rights in their bedroom. A man is suiting for the right of polygamy for the a US state to lift their laws against polygamy. He is claiming his privacy right to make personal contracts with his wives and his god. Since Thailand and Thai women seemed to follow western and modern social fades, Thais might want to take a good look at their old culture. There are some quality to those old Thai family traditions that could keep our families together if we would become less selfish and thinking of family.