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Late-Night Street Racers Disrupt Pattaya Residents
I live in a 10th floor Jomtien Condo that overlooks 2nd Rd. The noise of motorbikes/cycles going through the gears like a Silverstone race start is a constant. Last night, I awoke around 2AM and noticed it was unusually quiet. Must be raining, I thought but a glance from my balcony revealed a police check-point set-up on both sides of 2nd Rd, next to the Rimhad Condos. Quietest it's been since Covid lock-down. I hope they come often. -
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Non citizens removed from voter rolls calamity
And as for your "calamity,": From the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice that focuses on voting rights issues: Noncitizen Voting Is Already Illegal — and Vanishingly Rare April 17, 2024 The Brennan Center is part of a broad coalition tracking election-related disinformation. A big rumor we’ve identified rattling around the murkier regions of social media is that hordes of noncitizens are voting. That’s false. A lie. An urban myth. But it has also, somehow, become the glue that’s holding together disparate wings of the Republican Party. ... In 2017, my colleagues Myrna Pérez (now a federal appeals court judge) and Douglas Keith conducted an exhaustive study of 42 jurisdictions in the 2016 general election. They found that “election officials in those places, who oversaw the tabulation of 23.5 million votes, referred only an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting for further investigation or prosecution. In other words, even suspected — not proven — noncitizen votes accounted for just 0.0001 percent of the votes cast.” [emphasis added] (more) https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/noncitizen-voting-already-illegal-and-vanishingly-rare- 1
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Non citizens removed from voter rolls calamity
More misleading nonsense..... as previously reported here, since the Alabama action didn't just target individuals who were believed to be non-citizens: "Last month, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced that he had begun inactivating the voter registrations of 3,251 people who had been previously issued noncitizen identification numbers. A Justice Department review of the purge also identified multiple native-born and naturalized citizens who were incorrectly identified as potential noncitizens during the voter purge. A coalition of voting rights groups separately sued Allen earlier this month over the move, alleging he illegally targeted and intimidated naturalized citizens." https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-sues-alabama-election-official-allegedly-purging-voters/story?id=114317068 That's in addition to the fact that Alabama's entire attempted purge of its voter rolls, according to the Justice Department, would violate federal law by being done too close to the upcoming federal election. The only "calamity" here is that right-wing Republican election officials or Republicans at large in various states are attempting to force voting roll purges that end up targeting Americans who are legally entitled to vote. -
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Trump Challenges Special Counsel's Evidence Release in Election Case
The title is misleading. Trump is not chalenging evidence. He's just whining, as usual! 😀 -
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V P Debate
Me too. Ugh, until now I always thought Barron arrived via immaculate concepcion... -
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Trump Watches
Inane. No more inane than your in the post that I responded to initially. -
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The Rebirth of Canada's Right: How Pierre Poilievre is Shaking Up Canadian Politics
Harris has all but won it. The debate was a disaster for Mr Trump. Cheers buddy -
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The Rebirth of Canada's Right: How Pierre Poilievre is Shaking Up Canadian Politics
That may be true, but already there were scandals upon scandals before the Lieberals won the previous election. Canadians had the chance to toss the bums out, but with their votes clearly showed they didnt mind how things were going. Thus, there is a very good chance Trudeau wins a 3rd term despite what current polls show. Wait till the media starts shaping public perception of PP. -
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Trump Watches
Bizarre that anyone would question that. Didn't think that you'd be able to! -
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The Rebirth of Canada's Right: How Pierre Poilievre is Shaking Up Canadian Politics
Thats because these so called elected creatures don't work for the people; they take orders from the Big Boys. The Big Boys don't give a toss about your self empowerment. -
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Inferno bus in use for 54 years
These threads are always full of racist posts. Blaming Thai culture, Thai greed, Thai corruption, Thai stupidity, Thai carelessness, Thai unwillingness or inability to learn. Many state how superior "the West" and its safety is. Someone in the bus threads reminded us of Santika - but 8 years after Santika 5 more people than at Santika died in a residential fire, in a very Western country. And I haven't seen Thais exulting in racist bigotry about it. They were rightly shocked, like we are about this bus fire.- 1
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Is Thailand Value for money
Color me impressed that not only did you know 'thousands of people' but you also knew that 'only a few' of the thousands were doing 'okay'. I don't know how you managed to keep those 'thousands' of different financial situations in your head. I, myself, have my hands full just keeping track of my finances. Forget thousands. Bravo, you! As I said in my previous post, there are certainly lots of people not doing well in the US. That's a given. Always been the case, likely always will be the case. It's interesting, though. Did a little checking and found there are 37.9 million people living in poverty in the US. Certainly a lot. But, here's what I found interesting. There are also 24.5 million millionaires in the US. That's also a lot--and I suspect the actual number is both higher, and growing fairly rapidly. And, that number will continue to grow when the many wealthy, aging Baby Boomers pass their wealth, plus the wealth they inherited, themselves, from their Greatest Generation parents, on to their kids.
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