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The topic under discussion is the proposed 300 baht tourist tax. That's a $9 $8.50 increase.

If people are under such tight budgets that $9 is a deal killer, let them go elsewhere. Give Thai hotspots a chance to recover so they're appealing to the people who aren't under a tight budget. Sounds heartless, but it's the reality. I'm a perfect example. I've been to Thailand 18 times in the past 18 months, but I haven't spent as much as one well heeled monger on a 2 week bender. I just look good on the entry statistics.

I don't disagree with that. But maybe they called the time-out to make sure nobody registered under their dead aunt's ID. Or their entire ancestry's. If there's a way to cheat, someone will find it and do a how-to YouTube.

If $45 makes the difference in a family of 5's choice of vacation site, they're not likely to move the needle with their vacation spending. One of Thailand's problems now is over-tourism in many locations. That puts off well heeled travelers. Thailand needs to upgrade the quality of the tourism, not the number of bodies.

Quick question. Are they removed from the database when they die or move to the UK to be with their husband?

So do it already, just be quiet about it. Nobody will notice a $9 increase in airline ticket prices. And if that's a deal killer for them, are they the kind of tourist you want? They may be wonderful people. But not likely to move the needle with sweaty tourist money.

Sneak preview from the wingnut side: Known: Cell phone pings show the shooter spent 12 hours in his hide. Trump's golf schedule wasn't released to the public. Unknown: How did the guy know where to set up? The wingnut stuff: Was he just one of many that day, who happened to get assigned to the right place? Or did someone clue him into where he should be? And how did he spend 12 hours without the USSS seeing him? https://www.foxnews.com/video/6362040690112

Kursk, New York. Same Same.

Didn't see that coming...

You need to watch the YouTubes with the drunk squirrel. They are hilarious.

Yet, nobody's trying to kill Trump's political opponents. So who's the threat to democracy and the rule of law?

They must own stock in Raytheon and Lockheed. Go ahead and poke that bear. What could possibly go wrong?

Dang man. Just 58 years old? The guy is rough. Appropriate that they put him in a blue jumpsuit.

I think that's what they refer to as "doing his job".

Most Americans are pretty tired of celebrity catfights. Or is it cat lady fights?

But she's made $$ millions, singing about her bad choices in men.

So, the police chief says they haven't taken over an apartment complex, and the mayor says their presence in the city is limited to some properties and they've been dealing with it for months. Some properties meaning an apartment complex? Because that's what my lying eyes saw on the videos and interviews with former residents. That's one of the the worst non-denial denials ever.

I'm halfway expecting her to announce her target to make the USA the hub of.... (Fill in the Blank).

Great. She's got a target. If only she had a plan.

She's the 2024 DEI version of those kid's dolls where you pull a string and they spit out one of a dozen recorded lines. And those are her answers to every question she ever gets asked. She's rehearsed them well. Too well for the interweb era where anyone can play one against the other on a split screen and see that they're the same spiel, no matter what question she's asked. With so many YouTubers, it's not like the bad old days when only CBS, ABC and NBC had that ability. The good news is that the MSM can't hide it. It's going to be all over the interwebs. Because it gets clicks. And because Zuck and Musk won't be censoring like 2020.

I just saw a photo of the rifle, (In a video, poor resolution) and heard a retired Navy Seal refer to it as an SKS. The photo showed a sporterized gun, meaning it's been modified for hunting and to be more accurate than a spray-and-pray AK47. The wooded scene photos showed a black "sporterized" modern SKS, with a detachable magazine. It had a scope added for longer-range shooting and appeared to have a "Monte Carlo" stock to fit better to a shooter’s cheek. Firearms experts at The Military Wire called the weapon a 7.62x39mm SKS rifle with black synthetic stock. That’s the same ammunition as most AKs. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/15/donald-trump-safe-gunshots/75239096007/ There's photos out there, but they're blocked where I'm staying. Maybe someone can Google one up...

So, worse than 2011? Or was that in a different basin?

Thanks for making the effort to inform. Sorry to hear about the loss.

Then, they're going swimming.

My privacy prediction is that I'd get ads for the morning after pills after a night of hot monkey love, ads for the blue pills if it didn't last so long, and reminders to update my Tinder profile if it went really bad. But I am a wingnut conspiracy fan...