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Gov. Abott will be along shortly with his pardon.

Did you check the front porch, in the rocking chair? Follow the banjo music. This clown Comer's got nothing on a bag of rocks.

There's a word for this sort of post in a thread like this...what is it? It's on the tip of my tongue.

Twenty-two seats (projected) down from fifty-three. Stick a fork in these losers.

The people blasting Biden on this comment will be staging a Tiki-torch march soon, chanting will be mandatory. We're one Timothy McVeigh short of a major incident I fear.

My current read (pre-election, I'll stick with it) re-listing as a narcotic as soon as a new MoPH Minister is appointed: 10% some new, minor regulations pending the CCA and the formation of the Cannabis Control Board: 50% No changes until the CCA is gazetted: 40% The CCA could contain many new restrictions including medical only (supervised by DTAM). Impossible to predict at this point One major question is if BJT will join MVF and PTP in a coalition government.

Wow! An Orange Wave, and it has swept the Military parties out to sea. What a rebuke for the 3Ps. It will be interesting to see how Prayuth handles such a massive and embarassing loss. Regarding the next coalition government, MVF+PTP+BJT would only require peeling off a dozen or so Senators, to get to 376. There have ben news reports about certain senators being identified as malleable. This assumes Pita hasn't read any news articles about "media shares" in the last 40 years, for which he could be charged/banned and his party dissolved. Major obstacles remain if the next government to pushes too hard a Shinawatra re-patriation, or any reform of the Institution. The latter of which would likely spark a military repsonse.

The Grand Jury might offer Manslaugher in the First Degree, but the prosecutor will need to present a ton of evidence supporting "intent". That might be impossible.

Sixty-Seven Parties on the Party List. Nearly as complex a the Cheescake Factory menu.

I cleaned this up, I think it is acceptable now… Cannabis is not a top ten political issue for Thais. No one is “voting on cannabis”, unless they are truly on cannabis when voting. Stop trying to make this a thing. It’s not even a top 20 issue. It is legal to grow/produce, distribute/sell, consume cannabis flower. You can smoke in public, but not if it causes a nuisance. Individual MP members of PTP, MVF, PPP petitioned the Administrative Court to re-list Cannabis as a narcotic in Nov. 2022. MVF as a party, petitioned the Ombudsman asking them to petition the Administrative Court to re-list Cannabis as a narcotic, also in Nov. 2022. Cannabis is regulated, and some articles fail on this point, using scare tactics to infer that the entire industry is some sort of version of Prohibition era Chicago. There are regulations on production, distribution and consumption. Could there be more regulations? Yes, of course. Get Parliament in session and revive the Cannabis Control Act. The Police could canvass every shop in a single morning, to verify licensing, record-keeping, revenue and tax history. Close to a million (980,000 per Thaiger) Thais have registered to grow cannabis, most are or plan to be small operations, for personal use. Were Cannabis to be re-criminalized this segment would need guidance, help transitioning. The next steps are to arrange a government, convene a session of Parliament, and pass the CCA. A first draft/reading passed with ease, then everything went off the rails, because of huge alterations and the clock running out. There are bigger issues/problems for Thailand. But most of those are difficult to acknowledge let alone address. So, as is human nature, we focus on the minor, inconsequential issues because? Maybe they are easy black/white issues? Regarding the number of physical shops selling cannabis, it should be noted that On-Line Sales and Advertising were banned/restricted on/about 11 November 2022” The minister of the MOPH has announced that the MOPH announcement of June 17, 2022, will be repealed and replaced by the November 11, 2022, Announcement Re: Controlled Herbs (Cannabis). Unlike the prior announcement, the new announcement states that only the inflorescence of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) is a controlled herb. This means any dispensaries that sell such inflorescence must obtain a license from the MOPH first. Dispensaries that sell other parts of the marijuana plant (but not inflorescence) or hemp will not need a license. Similar to the prior announcement, it is prohibited to sell marijuana inflorescence to any person under the age of twenty, or to a pregnant or breastfeeding women. In addition, the new announcement also disallows the following: Selling marijuana inflorescence for smoking at a dispensary shop; Selling marijuana inflorescence through a vending machine, electronic channel, or computer network; Advertising marijuana inflorescence through any channel. https://conventuslaw.com/report/cannabis-dispensaries-and-e-commerce-in-thailand-will-there-be-another-surprise/ *inflorescence means cannabis flower. This may have been rescinded or changed in the interim, but any limitation for on-line sales means that the only retail source would be a shop. Will all that have opened be needed? No, of course not, but some will be. Obviously, many many many shops and groups/individuals are advertising and selling on line, so either this restriction is not being enforced, or it is no longer in effect. My current read re-listing as a narcotic as soon as a new MoPH Minister is appointed: 10% some new, minor regulations pending the CCA and the formation of the Cannabis Control Board: 50% No changes until the CCA is gazetted: 40% The CCA could contain many new restrictions including medical only (supervised by DTAM). Impossible to predict at this point.

I think this is it... https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bank-Memorandum-5.10.23.pdf

Thanks for this,been looking for nearly a day.

When you lose Steve Doocy you know you're really in trouble. Has this 30 page "probe" been released yet? Maybe some Air National Guardsman could leak it. The roughly 30-page report detailed what lawmakers say are various companies and financial records tied to family members of Mr Biden, including his son, Hunter Biden, and daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden. https://news.yahoo.com/house-republicans-release-probe-biden-205614084.html The Comer clown should do more investigatin', and less flappin' of his gums.

Excuse me sir, how many times have you been arrested? Twenty-five. OK, I don't have to kill you, today. This one. But maybe this is a trick question?

Medical examiner rules Jordan Neely’s death a homicide after subway choking https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/medical-examiner-rules-jordan-neelys-death-a-homicide-after-subway-choking/ Freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vazquez, who recorded the footage, said the men were in that position for "at least 15 minutes." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/06/jordan-neely-chokehold-death-daniel-penny-attorney-defends-actions/70190821007/ Extended video shows Daniel Penny appearing to ignore a person who warned 'you're going to kill him' while he had Jordan Neely in a chokehold https://news.yahoo.com/extended-video-shows-daniel-penny-043014405.html

I assumed, based on the headline, that "festive" clothing was being banned because Thai democracy is sacrosanct. So no skimpy outfits or twerking. Ooops. You'd think they'd have a list of rules prepared, and would be publishing them in the weeks leading up to the election. Ooops. And why is the RTP issuing voting rules?

So no kitchen sink? Or is that used for production. Hopefully no Italian men get ahold of this happy water. Watch out for falling refrigerators. Just goes to show you that there is an oversupply of the happy water precursors (ketamine, meth), and some are getting creative in marketing in order to reduce inventory. I'm surprised that there isn't a crackdown on the Happy Balloons (NO2).

With the outcome (including the ultimate formation of a coalition governemt) impossible to predict - many savvy Thai and foreign observers are offering a range of three or four outcome predictions - the Powers that Be are getting a bit fidgety. They're balancing the future unknown, with taking preemptive action. In my lowly opinion, they should let things play out, election-wise. They can always jigger things later on, with courts, commissions, legal threats on individuals and such. Futzing with the election now would seem to be an admission that this latest version (12.0?) of Thai Democracy is a failure.

There are these threads quite often here. There have been worse. Room Rater gives this one a 4/10 with 0 being perfectly clean, and 10 being trash piled up more than 1 meter. Not that it matters though as you're not getting your deposit returned, whether as a 0 or as a 10. My guess is the young woman didn't know how to dispose of the trash, or was embarassed to be seen ferrying trash in public (phobia) or was a bit lazy. How is trash handled in these high rise condos? Are there receptacles on some number of floors, in the parking floors, outside?

Of course he used the word "coup" several times during his lecture. This sounds like a threat. I don't get why the military is choosing to fight the battle on conscription? Make the military a viable option by encouraging voluntary enlistment with financial and educational incentives. And if you need maids just hire Burmese like every other household.

Trump doesn't do receipts. Yes, I know that sounds like it should be attributed to Allen Weisselberg.

Agreed. Even Mussolini had an outline.

Why do you doubt it? And why would he bear any responsibility? That's not to say that I think he is unaware of the current situation, and of the current risks. I mean there are many analysts preparing briefs, and I'm sure he got down in the weeds during his four day visit.

I still had the many tourists behaving badly threads in my head, didn't read the post carefully and made a dumb post. Thanks for calling it out. ????

No vieo that I could find, the earlier event where he addressed the Debt Ceiling crisis is available. Text https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/10/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-democratic-national-committee-reception-5/ Look, one of the things that I think is — I was raised in a family that I don’t think the fundamental principles that — that we were taught are any different if my mom had been — had been “Bidenopoulos” instead of Finnegan. She taught us that — and I mean this sincerely; I mean it from the bottom of my heart, and Father knows this. My mother used to say, “Joey, nobody is better than you, and everyone is your equal.” No — and if anything went down, “Just get up, Joe. Just get up. Never bend. Never bow.” Real simple propositions with my mom. And she was a sweet woman, and butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth except if you crossed one of her kids. But all kidding aside, the basic fundamental values that I find is that most ethnic communities are similar. And one of the things — I got to go back — not what I had planned on talking about, but I got to go back to Ireland for the — for the — the Irish Accords, to make sure they weren’t — the Brits didn’t screw around and Northern Ireland didn’t walk away from their commitments. Thousands of words, most of them extemporaneous, and yes, he could have finished the message without saying the "screwing around" bit. And yes, there will be some mending today, but honestly, let's not get too hysterical, or calling for Joe to get "care". President Biden Remarks in New York on Raising the Debt Limit Joe starts at 20:15 https://www.c-span.org/video/?528003-1/president-biden-remarks-york-raising-debt-limit