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jmmengel

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Re: News in General
« Reply #7740 on: February 27, 2024, 07:18:49 PM »

Hard not to notice that natural gas bills for consumers are drastically lower this year.
Thanks to warmer winter weather and the great efficiency of the gas producers ( thanks frackers!)
Gas costs are the lowest in three decades.

But Butthead Biden is sure to fuck up these good times.

With demand low supplys are high. So the market will correct by cutting production.
Except there is rising demand in Europe for Liquid Natural Gas that can keep American production up.
Enter Biden and his idiotic decision to curb American LNG  exports to soothe the leftist loonies (and hold on to their votes) because of their hatred of fossil fuels.
So Europe has to pay the price Putin wants for Russian gas.
Who wants four more years of this?
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« Reply #7741 on: February 27, 2024, 07:46:32 PM »

As we install more rooftop generation for electrical heating systems, the demand for and price of natural gas will both drop. We are looking to export more municipal and industrial scale batteries as well as employ more at home. We are off to a good start, but it will take more than four years to fully update our power grid and minimize our dependence on fossil fuels.

What we unquestionably need four more years of is President Biden, the best chief executive of your lifetime.
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« Reply #7742 on: February 27, 2024, 07:46:39 PM »

Here is some good news, the new Star Wars movie is going to be made locally here in California. That is awesome. George Lucas was born in Modesto, and I am sure he is happy that Disney is creating local jobs in California. And this will inspire more filmmakers to film locally in California, and the whole economy will benefit.

And having won better working conditions and better pay with the Strikes, then the Union workers are all being treated better.

Malibu, Beverly Hills, Orange County, Burbank, Hollywood, etc, the economy is going to get better as more films are made locally.

And hopefully Universal is able to create more jobs as well. And the other studios.

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« Reply #7743 on: February 27, 2024, 07:49:11 PM »

As we install more rooftop generation for electrical heating systems, the demand for and price of natural gas will both drop. We are looking to export more municipal and industrial scale batteries as well as employ more at home. We are off to a good start, but it will take more than four years to fully update our power grid and minimize our dependence on fossil fuels.

What we unquestionably need four more years of is President Biden, the best chief executive of your lifetime.

In Anaheim they give us free Natural Gas for heating at my apartment complex, we receive free heating.

Biden is doing a great job, and so is Karen Bass.

Plus, the new Star Wars movie is going to be made here in California, lots of good things are happening, and we are getting our high speed train to Vegas, etc, lots of good things are happening.

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« Reply #7744 on: February 27, 2024, 08:52:40 PM »

High-end Mexican department store Liverpool made its interest in Nordstrom known last month when it became its second-largest stakeholder after the Nordstrom family. It acquired a 9.9% passive stake in Nordstrom for about 5.9 billion pesos ($293.8 million). Oct 12, 2022

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Maybe the Mexicans can help to bring back The Broadway Department Stores, and maybe they can help to save Macy's, while working together as a team with the Italians, and the French, and with New Yorkers, etc, and with the Californians, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

The empty shops/buildings around Union Sq San Francisco could be sold off for housing.
Online shopping has killed some dept stores, and street store shopping in many places...seems to me.
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« Reply #7745 on: February 27, 2024, 11:58:05 PM »

As the jobs come back to Hollywood, then I hope that we create jobs for all new people, and not the people who turned a blind eye while we had 70,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, guys like Jim Carrey and Will Smith can go live in Atlanta. We need for good people like Don Johnson, and Dick Van Dyke, and Morgan Fairchild, and Jeff Bridges, to be at the top, they all worked to help the homeless in Los Angeles.

We need for all new people to get the new jobs in Hollywood as the jobs come back to Hollywood.

And I would love to have a Bungalow Office at Universal Studios, and to have a wife as a team-mate to write and produce movies television shows with, and maybe own Universal someday. We will see what happens.

Anyhow, lots of new stars are rising on Facebook and on Social Media, such as Marli Buccola, and Mahlagha Jaberi, and many others, who can be the stars of the future.

And we need all new television shows, instead of the television channels all showing "Friends" re-runs, and "Two and a Half Men" re-runs... We need all new television shows and all new stars.

We need for all new people to rise in Hollywood, and we need good altruistic stars to rise to the top who care about the Homeless in Los Angeles, and who care about Hollywood, and who care about the young people who are sacrificing everything to come to Hollywood to work at the studios.

It is great that Star Wars is going to be filmed in California, and hopefully many new jobs are created in California.

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« Reply #7746 on: February 28, 2024, 12:33:28 AM »

I read that Sylvester Stallone is moving to Florida, and I reminded him that Florida has Universal Studios in Orlando, and Sly can make movies in Orlando, along with Oliver Stone, and others. Movies and television shows can be made at Universal in Orlando, and Cocoa Beach is great.

Meanwhile Star Wars is going to made here in California, and I hope many new people get a break here in Hollywood. And we have lots of stars from Social Media who can work at Universal here in California, etc. And it would be great if Universal could buy Playboy and bring back the Playboy Channel, they can film the shows for the Playboy Channel right there at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and Universal can hire brilliant young writers from National Lampoon at Harvard to save Playboy, and they can film the Slocum Westerns for the Playboy Channel, etc.

And guys who hate Hollywood like Jim Carrey can go work in Atlanta, and Will Smith can go work in Atlanta, etc.

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« Reply #7747 on: February 28, 2024, 12:44:12 AM »

High-end Mexican department store Liverpool made its interest in Nordstrom known last month when it became its second-largest stakeholder after the Nordstrom family. It acquired a 9.9% passive stake in Nordstrom for about 5.9 billion pesos ($293.8 million). Oct 12, 2022

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Maybe the Mexicans can help to bring back The Broadway Department Stores, and maybe they can help to save Macy's, while working together as a team with the Italians, and the French, and with New Yorkers, etc, and with the Californians, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

The empty shops/buildings around Union Sq San Francisco could be sold off for housing.
Online shopping has killed some dept stores, and street store shopping in many places...seems to me.

Businesses will replace the businesses that are gone. And we need to bring back the malls in areas such as San Bernardino.

Star Wars is going to be made here in California, and that will help the local economy, and more jobs will be created.

And we can save San Francisco with cheap hostels where people can shower and sleep for $15 per night, and cheap Sober Living Homes for $450 per month, etc. And San Francisco needs to attract new Businesses, and they need to attract new investors, etc. And the Chinese can help to save San Francisco, and the Italians can help. And San Francisco needs Mental Health Associations like the one in Santa Ana, and Wellness Centers like the one in Orange.

Groups such as Homeboy Industries can also help to save San Francisco and Oakland and San Bernardino, etc.

And for housing then Habitat For Humanity can help and others. And in Los Angeles we need to complete the Graffiti Towers that the Chinese own, with the help of Muzi, we need to finish the towers to become housing for our homeless Veterans, and for our homeless Senior Citizens.

Salute,

Tony V.
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« Reply #7748 on: February 28, 2024, 02:06:52 AM »

The greatest gift that you can give to a poor young man is the ability to work and to earn an honest living so that they can be independent and self sustaining.

Homeboy Industries is a great program that gives purpose to young former gang members and it is a program that teaches the young people how to be independent and self sustaining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboy_Industries

Homeboy Industries can also be connected with Habitat for Humanity and they can teach the former gang members how to build houses, and they can go to work as apprentices with the unions, etc.

Homeboy Industries can also help to complete the building of the Graffiti Towers in Los Angeles, so we can use the towers as housing for our Homeless Veterans and for our Homeless Senior Citizens, and Kiwanis International can help as well.

And we need to teach the prisoners how to do honest jobs so that they can be independent and self sustaining when they get out of prison, they can learn how to groom dogs, and how to install sound systems in cars, and they can learn the construction trades, and welding, and they can learn cooking, etc, so they can work an honest job and be self sustaining and independent.

A lot of these people are just poor and ignorant and desperate, if you teach them an honest profession then they can make honest money so that they do not need to be poor and desperate. And they can study and learn so that they can become wiser. Homeboy Industries is great, and they help a lot of people.

Salute,

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« Reply #7749 on: February 28, 2024, 03:54:54 AM »

Arab folk in Michigan seemingly not happy with Joe over funding of weapons for allies.

A scroll thru on my Sky News screen just read...as Andrew Bolt reported from Jerusalem..."New Oct 7 planned".

If the US deserts Israel, what hope is there for the rest of us allies (incl Australia)?
Answer: not much.
Maybe Britain could sell some missiles, bombs to Israel...but all allies seem to be using US planes, British made missiles might not fit.
Charming.

Will Joe-admin go to water, or hold its nerve in the face of a possible voter revolt in Michigan?



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« Reply #7750 on: February 28, 2024, 04:22:00 AM »

Not only a second (Oct 7)...but a third, fourth...said Ghazi Hamad, senior Hamas official.
He said:
"Will we have to pay a price?
Yes, and we are ready to pay it.
We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs."

He said they intend to annihilate Israel.

Google it ...Ghazi Hamad...he explained it all...how they intend to completely destroy Israel.

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« Reply #7751 on: February 28, 2024, 09:41:50 AM »

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« Reply #7752 on: February 28, 2024, 10:32:26 AM »

Somewhat surprised to report that Tampa Florida was not the Hellscape of homeless veterans and drug addled undocumented aliens we have been led to believe, but rather a prosperous city of industrious people, beautiful beaches and manatees marred only by the locals' tendency to either camp at 70.25 mph in the passing lanes, or else merge in a manner that disregards the niceties, not to mention legalities, of Assured Clear Distance Ahead. That is the dichotomy. There is no in between.

Also, the roosters that roam old town Key West are quaint and charming in the daytime, but far less so at 5: fucking 30 in the GODDAMMNED MORNING.
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« Reply #7753 on: February 28, 2024, 04:31:29 PM »

beautiful beaches and manatees marred only by the locals

To be fair, some of the beautiful manatees are marred by tourists in watercraft collisions.

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« Reply #7754 on: February 28, 2024, 05:43:39 PM »

Somewhat surprised to report that Tampa Florida was not the Hellscape of homeless veterans and drug addled undocumented aliens we have been led to believe, but rather a prosperous city of industrious people, beautiful beaches and manatees marred only by the locals' tendency to either camp at 70.25 mph in the passing lanes, or else merge in a manner that disregards the niceties, not to mention legalities, of Assured Clear Distance Ahead. That is the dichotomy. There is no in between.

Also, the roosters that roam old town Key West are quaint and charming in the daytime, but far less so at 5: fucking 30 in the GODDAMMNED MORNING.

Welcome to the farm.
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