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Dunno, but I'm sure we can find a liberal democrat to blame. Biden and Obama? Walt Disney? Back soon with some other options.

Yeah, Tucker is a far better actor than Ms. McEnany. I mean she tries, so I'd give her a participation medal, but she's not believable as an actor. And the Fox base will find her grating after a week or two. On the plus side she's got a better cackle than Carlson.

What do you mean by "outdoor", and "indoor"? For example, a fabric greenhouse with or without supplemental light? Is that indoor or outdoor? And quite a few longtime traditional Thai growers, like Aram “Uncle Dam” Limsakul, would probably disagree with your hot-take. As would growers in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. I'd need a bit of proof to believe this assertion. Yes, some eigths are as low as $20 (before tax and fee), and bulk wholesale is as a low as $4 gram based on a kilo purchase. But I'm having a hard time understanding the relationship between the price in Oregon and in Thailand? I mean other than Thai smugglers should be sourcing Cannabis in Oregon, which they probably already are. I guess Thai smugglers could be buying on the underground/illegal, black/grey market. I hadn't considered that before.

Following the lead of Emmett Till's mother? Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. At a church on the South Side of Chicago, Emmett Till's mutilated body would be on display for all to see. Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-tills-funeral/

Where's the good guy with a Range Rover when you need them? Texas driver charged with manslaughter after deadly Brownsville crash May 8 (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of crashing his car into a group of pedestrians near a Brownsville homeless shelter housing migrants, killing eight people, has been charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault, police said on Monday. Alvarez attempted to flee but was held down by several bystanders, Sauceda said. Investigators were waiting for toxicology reports on Alvarez to determine if he was impaired at the time of the crash. Police have not ruled out the possibility that the crash was intentional, Sauceda said. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-driver-charged-with-eight-counts-manslaughter-crash-2023-05-08/

They're going analog.

That M Card discontinuation notice is here... https://www.scb.co.th/en/personal-banking/cards/prepaid-cards/scb-m-visa-prepaid-card.html Siam Commercial Bank will no longer provide SCB M VISA Prepaid Card, SCB M VISA Prepaid tourist Card, M Gift Card, and EM Voucher services (collectively referred to as the "Cards"). Customers may apply for/purchase and use the Cards until the following dates:

I think it's more about "As a foreigner, how do I purchase a good or service, from a supplier." Direct bank transfer for POS/non-traditional on-line is pretty easy. Where it gets complicated is with services which require a credit card, like LINE, Grab, etc. Secured, virtual, loadable cards can be used in many (but not all) "credit card" applications.

The linked article seems devoid of facts, and more of a marketing brochure. Although I'm not sure who the audience is? I thought that it was difficult for Chinese citizens to move money out of China?

Are you an existing SCB banking customer? If so, SCB Planet Card. https://www.scb.co.th/en/personal-banking/cards/prepaid-cards/planet-scb-card.html Easy to get, apply in the SCB mobile app, received in the mail. Manage from the SCB app. I keep 2,500 down to 1,000 on mine. It supports tap & go. TrueMoney Wallet with their virtual Mastercard can be back-stopped (pre-loaded via a transfer from a bank account) as well, but this one is harder (administratively) to get. You may be able to get a secured credit card from your bank, requires a separate account with a minimum of 20,000 baht which cannot be used, you pay your bill from another savings acount. So 20,000 potential exposure. Not all of these options offer 100% coverage for any potential charge, especially for things like Grab and LINE.

I think it's too late to play that card. And the institution has always been portrayed as being above politics.

The "data" business, and the "generating of cannabis articles" business are probably the most profitable segments of the cannabis business today. Smart move.

You mean a sham election leading to a coup? Well I wouldn't dismiss that possibility, but I was merely contrasting the two options on the table today. Better to arrange an outcome, which results in a conservative government (PPRP/UTN/BJT), but with an outsider (non military, affiliated or non-affiliated) as PM, than to stage a coup now. I think you're saying that in this scenario the disaffected voters (PTP/MFP) would protest, leading to the requirement for a self-coup (this has happened before here, the self-coup part I mean). Maybe, but I think they'll roll over after the first spritzing from the water canons.

Agree with you, she looks like she would be a good fit at Fox to replace Clarson. Not sure the demo will accept her though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayleigh_McEnany McEnany has been closely associated with the Republican Party since she was in college. She was critical of the Obama presidency, and in 2012 posted several tweets questioning Barack Obama's birthplace, echoing the "birther" conspiracy theorist movement.[18] In 2012, McEnany tweeted about Obama's half-brother Malik Obama, who lives in Kenya: "How I Met Your Brother – Never mind, forgot he's still in that hut in Kenya".[3] In 2017, she responded to claims it was hypocritical of Trump to visit his golf course while president by mistakenly claiming that Obama rushed off to a golf game after the 2002 beheading of Daniel Pearl. Obama was a state senator at the time of Pearl's murder. McEnany later apologized for the comment, noting that Obama went golfing after the 2014 murder of another journalist, James Foley, who was beheaded by ISIS in Syria. Obama, who was vacationing on Martha's Vineyard at the time, admitted that he should have "anticipated the optics" of golfing immediately after making a press statement on Foley's death.[19][20] On August 7, 2017, the Republican National Committee (RNC) appointed McEnany as its national spokesperson.[21][22] In 2017, as RNC spokeswoman, McEnany supported Trump amid a bipartisan backlash in response to his comments about a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he suggested that white supremacists and anti-racist counterprotesters shared blame for violence; in a tweet, McEnany wrote that the Republican Party supported Trump's "message of love and inclusiveness."[23]

The current regime has been giving away BILLIONS for the last eight years, in the form of welfare, income assistance, debt restructuring, agricultural subsidies, fuel subsidies, electricity subsidies. And the current regime is quick to point out all of these giveaways. Get a grip. 22 million people applied for the current round,and at least 14.5 m were approved. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40025272 The real issue, such as it is, is the potential return of Thaksin. The spectre of him setting foot on Thai soil is enough to drive the PtB to massage the election in any way possible. Another coup is the very, very, very last option. A sham election is better than another coup.

Someone has been over-imbibing in the Chateau Cartalucci.

During Gov. Abott's interview on Fox about this incident, that network showed the results of their own recent poll on proposals to reduce gun violence.

Via air freight, at Suvaranbhumi, in 5 and 10 Kg shipments, labeled as "Christmas Decorations". One such delivery was made public, and referenced others. The VIP/HiSo person involved said he wasn't doing anything illegal because if he were he'd use a fake name. Thais or their partners are buying legal wholesale cannabis in the U.S. and Canada, then shipping it to Thailand. How do you think the thousands of other illegal items, from cannabis concentrates to eCig to sex toys "arrive" here? By magic?

Hmm. I wonder if he will simply be deported rather than being prosecuted for what appears to be several serious violations of the law?

Results of this meeting.... AFAIK it remains illegal to import cannabis into Thailand. There may be an exemption for small amounts for medical research with the appropriate license. Some here claim they've seen import licenses but they claim privacy concerns when pressed for details. The U.S. (illegal imports are likely coming from Canada as well) seems to be bearing the brunt of the attention on this subject. Local diplos will probably have to address this issue in private, or in public, if only to accept a written grievance. There are some questionable assertions, and a whole host of issues are conflated: imported cannabis, foreign ownership, illegal delivery services (US->THL). I also believe that marketing/selling/fulfilling cannabis on line is illegal. I think this was codified ~ 12 Nov 2022 by the MoPH when the Cannabis Control Act stalled in Parliament. https://www.facebook.com/chokwankittychopaka Meeting minutes with the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine. Agenda: Management strategies for the illegal import of cannabis, which has an impact on entrepreneurs and growers in the country. Chair of the meeting: Dr. Thewin Thanirattanakorn, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine Key Issues: From the Public: - 70-80% of the cannabis sold in tourist areas is illegally imported. - Foreigners from China, Russia, America, and Europe can be seen selling illegally smuggled cannabis flowers and extracts. - Many cannabis shops/farms use nominees to conceal foreign ownership and some also import cannabis illegally. - Foreigners working as salespeople or growers for cannabis shops and farms. - Imported cannabis through licensed farm got converted to Thai cannabis. - More police officers are becoming involved in the cannabis business and are not enforcing the law that affects their benefits. - Online advertising to promote illegal delivery services of cannabis from America to Thailand can be seen allover social media. - Lack of a central agency to take reports and complaints of bad actors. - Need for clear legal regulations. - Corruption in the permit application process and in extortion for protection money from shops, etc. (old problems still remain) Deputy Director: - Acknowledged that there are illicit imports of cannabis from foreign countries and there are Nominee businesses. - The act of importing cannabis is still illegal under the Plant Quarantine Act B.E. 2507, Section 2, as it is a prohibited item to enter the kingdom without passing through the plant inspection checkpoint. The importer is in violation of Articles 8 and 10 of the Act, and is subject to penalties as prescribed in Section 21 of the Narcotics Act, namely imprisonment of up to one year, a fine of up to 20,000 baht, or both. - Currently, there are education efforts being carried out in various sectors, along with plans to implement stricter control systems. - As of May 3, 2023, there are a total of 8,879 controlled herb (cannabis) sales licenses nationwide (1,809 in Bangkok). - We want entrepreneurs who have been licensed to comply with the regulations and submit Forms Type 27 and Type 28 seriously, as the department will start suspending or revoking licenses for those who fail to submit the forms twice in a row, following the promotional period. - Currently, the department has started inspecting shops throughout the country and has suspended the licenses of some shops or ordered them to close down. - The occupation of "selling" is actually reserved exclusively for Thais and is not allowed for foreigners according to the Alien Workers Management Act of 2017. Violators can be fined from 5,000 to 50,000 baht and deported and blacklisted, and employers who hire foreign workers without work permits or allow them to work outside their authorized scope can be fined from 10,000 to 100,000 baht per worker. Repeat offenders may face imprisonment for up to 1 year or fines from 50,000 to 200,000 baht, and are prohibited from hiring foreign workers for 3 years. Anyone who witnesses such violations can report to the police or immigration officers for legal action. The summary of today's meeting is that both parties will proceed with the recommendations made by the other party and prepare for the enforcement of the regulations.

So it's back to the Incompetency-based curriculum. The absolute last thing Thai society, and the regime which oversees Thailand, wants is an educated population. I'm amazed they teach them to read and write.

Crystal methamphetamine, and Ketamine, seem to be on the upswing here, based on the large busts of these drugs recently. These are hundreds of Kilograms being siezed. Just today police siezed 650 Kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in Saraburi. Twelve were arrested, they said they had made three previously successful runs. I suspect most of this is transhipping from Myanmar through Thailand and then on to far away shores. Australia seems like a popular destination, based on past busts at outbound ports here. But a lot falls off the truck, and gets smoked here. I don't believe anyone is "lacing" cannabis with meth (yaba/pills, or Ice). There would no reason to do such a thing. We should probably prepare for more refrigerator tossing.

Cyanide check on aisle 3.

From the linked story... “A decent locally grown strain goes for 300 baht [$9] per gram but imports are only 150-180 baht [$4.50-5.30] per gram,” Prajya Aura-ek, a cannabis entrepreneur with several licensed dispensaries in Bangkok, told Al Jazeera. I don't this this one single source for this factoid is accurate or worthy of publication. “Each day we have brokers, both Thais and other nationalities — this is definitely a multinational business — coming into our shops trying to sell us imported weed. But we turn them all down.” Call the Police.

Some fundamentalist White Christian legislators in Florida and elsewhere are already talking up banning contraception/birth control. DeSantis is already cutting State funding for contraception. For the second time in two years, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) has vetoed millions of dollars in funding that would have gone toward making birth control accessible to low-income Floridians. DeSantis vetoed a total of $3 billion out of the $110 billion budget that the state legislature sent him last month. Of the $3 billion he slashed, $2 million would have provided individuals with low incomes the opportunity to obtain long-acting, reversible forms of contraception, including intrauterine devices (IUDs), which are effective for up to 10 years, and Depo-Provera injections, which last for around three months, among others. https://truthout.org/articles/weeks-before-abortion-ban-desantis-vetoes-millions-in-birth-control-funding/ Soon the Florida Man will be involved in every aspect of Floridians' lives. I'm certain he'll weigh in on acceptable practices in the privacy of one's home.