Emdog

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Elon is showing you can have serious mental shortcomings and still be rich There is no good commercial reason to drop the bird (or "flip the bird"?). Recognizable and instantly understood to mean Twitter. And to replace it with an "X"? Homage to Malcolm? Agents Scully and Muldaur?

I suggest removing the labeling of court as "conservative": thanks to Trump appointments, they are anything but conservative. One of the basic tenets of conservatism in minimal government interference with citizens lives, "That which governs least governs best". A conservative would take the view "it's none of the governments business whether a woman has an abortion or not. It's between her and her doctor". They also believe in precedent... Brett swore under oath at his confirmation that Roe v Wade was "settled case law". He was lying. Republicans have been belly aching about "activist courts" for decades, but this court has been doing it's own "legislating from the bench" and we have hear nary a squeak.

Good. I hope there is not "zone creep" somehow getting into Pattaya city There is no good reason to have bars open 24/7. Hard core alcoholics can just learn to have a bottle at home for them if the bars shut at 2. Some people actually have lives, jobs, like to be about in daylight and don't enjoy being kept up by the blasting sound systems. If you can't get blotto enough by 2 am, then find a different sort of debilitating addiction

In the story presented here, the "key statement" is not given... like giving a sports report without the score..... To save the dear readers from having to go to original story, here is the statement and all: " When his DOJ officials and other executive branch agency officials said, 'Mr. President, there is no fraud undermining the elections.' What did he say? 'I don't care if there's no fraud. Just say there was and leave the rest to me and my Republican allies in Congress.' Corrupt intent proved," Kirschner said."

I think it was BBC that reported the women who were shamed by Hindus were Christians, which may be the religion of the tribe. Ain't religion great? (Not)

Trumps buddy Epstein must be glad he is already dead.... what penalty for those who partake of the trafficked young ladies Donald? "Death penalty immediately" so much for law and order, judicial process, etc. Hey Donald, if you're for "swift justice" call off your delay tactics in your multiple legal cases

Idiots. Unless they have that Men in Black memory eraser, "expunging" the impeachments is a fool's errand with a good bit of 1984 tossed in: "Who controls the present controls the past & who controls the past controls the future".... The smartest thing would be just to let it be, as attention span of public is rather limited. "Let sleeping dogs lie (or lay)" But they have to bow down to wannabe king Trump, the greatest threat to representative democracy in US history

Does Thailand have such a thing as building inspectors, the honest sort?

It's fraud. "A deliberate scheme to obtain financial or similar gain by using false statements, misrepresentations, concealment of important information, ..." per legal definition

I suppose artificial intelligence is much better than no intelligence

I find it fitting that so many of the 93 million are located in those red states where climate change has been seen as some sort of commie leftist plot.

Gee, false information... well, where does AI get it's data? From humans, who err, give false info.... maybe Fox could have a custom AI based on their news..... The deal is "Garbage in Garbage out"

do you know any Thais?

"The officer’s wife found out about their secret relationship and kicked him out of the house. However, the wife later won him back in 2019." Huh? Seems he would be the one needing to do the "winning back".... what'd she do, kick him back into the house?

If he was "arrested immediately", does that mean a cop was nearby or even on the premises? Which runs into 4:15 in the morning time frame....? Perhaps the bar could plead they were opening early?

When the Chinese sub substitute engine deal fails, I suggest they go with this powerplant. Would also use local resources from S Thailand

The district should apply to the UN for designation as a world heritage site, or something like that.

"Russia’s war in Ukraine needs to end before the alliance can consider adding Kyiv to its ranks..." Seems like a big incentive for Russia to keep on with the war as long as possible

"...they struggle to pay back debts owed to the 20 richest countries in the world." Well, the poor countries would have a difficult time borrowing from other poor countries, ya think? Paying off one's debts used to be considered expected behavior, but it seems that has gone by the by In defense of poor countries, I wonder how much of that debt went to paying off whatever general was in charge at the time for some wasteful white elephant project that made the rich richer but did little to improve average person's life "Small is beautiful" just doesn't deliver on the bribes like building a new dam

I do have delusions.... you caught me! My excuse of sorts is that I didn't look at the dates of the articles.... my bad

My guess is political inertia... power of Cuban exiles in Miami. And the US sugar cartel does not want cheap sugar to come in to US markets. I agree it has been more than long enough.... if embargo hasn't worked after 60+ years, maybe time to take a different approach. I know Obama tried to open things up, but then Trump came along. Had some US friends who went to Cuba maybe a year ago, but don't know their means of getting in.

The time it would need to take might be 15 minutes, IF the useless police commanders got off their backsides and leaned on their inferiors... it's not a lack of cops, but you have to pull them from their safe aircon havens and put them to work. "But there's no payoff for us, chief!"

How do these connect to the missing German? Different German name, age, looks.... The Thai woman arrested is 41, not 24. Help me out here....

So what? "...a place for gays to have various sexual activities and not for fitness." Who is the victim here? What about the massage shops nearly everywhere? Is there a "happy ending" to this story?